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Rh Captain Lambert, on his arrival in Boston, was placed in charge of the brig May Dacre, with a second cargo of goods for the Columbia River trade, making a successful voyage to the Hawaiian Islands, wintering there in 18331834, and entering the Columbia safely April 16, 1834, where he met Wyeth, who had arrived overland in the month of September preceding. The venture did not prove profitable, and in 1836 Wyeth sold out to the Hudson's Bay Company. Before this time the May Dacre had left the river. Captain Lambert commanded at different times the Talma from Boston, the Girard, Diadem, Glasgow, Elizabeth and Huntress. His last voyage was from the Sandwich Islands to New Bedford. He ended his days in the Sailors' Snug Harbor on Staten Island.

Lemont, in September, 1833, obtained a berth as mate of the ship Ceylon, from Boston to Liverpool, but was taken ill and sent home. He was next mate of the Henry Tolman, running between New York and Apalachicola, and subsequently sailing master of the steamer Marmora, owned by Rufus K. Page of Hollo well, the first steamer into Liverpool. Afterwards he went to the Mediterranean, and had many adventures in various ports, besides finding a wife in London.

About 1849 he took an interest in a brig, the John Davis, loaded with goods, lumber and house frames for the Pacific Coast. While lying waiting at Parker's Flat, fifteen miles below Bath, for the Captain, who was ill, the crew went ashore and took a cannon from Cox Head Fort, which act was unknown to Captain Lemont until the vessel was past Cape de Verde Islands. It came to Oregon and was finally landed on the strand at Saint Helens, but was burst in firing on the Fourth of July some years after arriving.

The John Davis brought seventy-five passengers from San Francisco to Portland in 1849, and returned to Cali-