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 520 TEDESAL BEFOBTSB. �arrivecl at St. Lawrence bay June 25, 1878. The ice was just beginning to break up, and for two days he was unable to enter the harbor. He was boarded, however, by the inter- preter, who informed him of the visit of Captain Dexter and Captain Eavens, presently to be related, and the next day the chief came on board, bringing with him the letter left with him by Captain Nye. On the third day the Mount WoUas- ton succeeded in entering the harbor. Captain Nye found the Cleone, to ail appearance, precisely as he had left her. On going on board bf her he ascertained that her decks had been somewhat eut into,and a small quantity of oil taken from her between decks. This, he was informed by .the chief, had been done by Indians from the interior, whose depredations the chief was unable to prevent, except by "a war." The great mass of the oil, however, was intact. It was in the lower hold, embedded in ice from six to eight feet in thick- ness. �Captain Nye had already been informed by the interpreter that Captain Eavens, of the brig Timandra, had some weeks before put a man on board the Cleone, with a view of taking possession, of the property. In response to his bail, this man made his appearance. He proved to be a person named Pagin, second mate of the Timandra. He handed to Captain Nye a letter, which the latter declined to read, but he in- formed Fagin that he had corne to the bay for the express purpose of saving his property which he had left there, and he intended to do so. He invited Fagin to go aboard his vessel. This the latter declined, but went on shore and lived with the natives until the arrivai of his own vessel. Captain Nye at once proceeded to carry out the objeot of his voyage, and had made considerable progress towards its accomplish- ment, and had entered into a contract with the master of the bark Syren, which came into the harbor on the sixth of July, for the shipment of the oil to New Bedford, when Captain Eavens, of the Timandra, arrived, on the eleventh of July. �The circumstances attending the previous visit of Captain Eavens and Captain Dexter must here be adverted to. Cap- tain Dexter, of the Loleta, arrived at the bay about the second ��� �