114 HISTORY or PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND.

only required the cordial co-operation of the tenantry to secure an amount of advantage to themselves which no degree of agitation could obtain. The island had contri- buted two thousand pounds to the Patriotic Fund, which had "been instituted to relieve the widows and children of soldiers who fell in the Crimean war; and the governor expressed Her lSIajesty’s satisfaction with the generous sympathy thus evinced by the people and their representatives.

In the month of March, 1855, a distressing occurrence 100k place. The ice-boat from Cape Tormentine to the island, with. Mr. James Henry Haszard, Mr. Johnson, son of Dr. Johnson, medical students, and an old gentleman— Mr. Joseph \Vcir, of Bangor—as passengers, had proceeded safely to within half a mile of the island shore, when a. severe snow-storm was encountered. The boat, utterly nn- able to make headway, was put about, drawn on the ice, and turned up to protect the men from the cold and fury of .the storm. Thus they were drifted helplessly in the strait «during Friday night, Saturday, and Saturday night. On 'Sunday morning they began to drag the boat towards the nlainland, and, exhausted,—not having tasted food for three days,—they were about ceasing all further efforts, when 'they resolved to kill a spaniel which Mr. W'eir had with him, and the poor fellows drank the blood and eat the raw flesh of the animal. They now felt a little revived, and lightened the boat by throwing out trunks and baggage. Mr. Haszard was put into the boat, being unable to walk; .and thus they moved towards the shore, from which they were four or five miles distant. On Monday evening Mr. l’laszard died from exhaustion. They toiled on, however, rand on Tuesday morning reached the shore, near Wallace, Nova Scotia, but, unfortunately, at a point two miles from the nearest dwelling. Two of the boatmen succeeded in