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landed, independent of his condition, even though he might die before he could be housed. Such was not the contract.

Imagine the scene portrayed by this letter. There on the banks of Jekyl Island lay the negroes, dying because of the torments they had endured, while Lamar and the captain stood by quarrelling over the blood money.

In the record of the meetings of the New York Yacht Club for 1859 (a thin little 12mo manuscript volume) can be found, under the date of February 3, a preamble and resolutions expelling Corrie from the club and erasing the name of the Wanderer from the club’s squadron list. The club did this not only because Corrie had violated the law, "but more especially from his being engaged in a traffic repugnant to humanity and to the moral sense of the members of this association.”

There were many slavers living in New York then, but they were not considered fit for membership in the New York Yacht Club.

According to Lamar’s letter-book, the Wanderer was stolen out of Savannah, after the second voyage to Africa, by a Captain D. 8. Martin. "He has undoubtedly gone to the coast of Africa for a cargo of negroes,"" says Lamar; "and if he is as smart there as he has been here, he will get one."

The Wanderer was eventually captured by the Federal forces, and was, for a time, used as revenue cutter at Pensacola. Then she was sold at auction and was put into the cocoanut trade by a firm dealing with the islands on the north coast of Honduras, and there she remained until driven ashore on Cape