y i OUR ISLAND STORY 105 that hospitable man and his family no time was lost in bringing the remaining members of the party to the shelter of the house. There they received kindness and attention; and there under the direction of young Johnson the frost was drawn out of their limbs. Medical help was as soon as possible obtained. Meanwhile the delayed mails were transported to Charlotte town; and with all possible respect, and care the body of young Haszard was prepared and carried to the home of his bereaved parents. The following notice con¬ cerning him was published by The Examiner: "Died of cold and exhaustion, while attempting to cross the Straits of Northumber¬ land on his return from the city of to his native land, James Henry Haszard, the third son of James Douglas Haszard , Esquire, aged eighteen years. The deceased was a student in the Medical College, attached to Harvard University, and gave indications of peculiar talent and aptitude for the line of study he had adopted. To these were added an unremitting industry in the acquisition of knowledge and sedulous attention to the required exercises that, had his life been spared, would have raised him, in all human pro- ability, to great eminence in the profession. Kind, gentle and af¬ fectionate, of irreproachable moral character, and mild and gentle¬ manlike in his manners, he had risen high in the esteem of all who knew him. A dutiful son, a kind brother, an attached relative, his untimely loss is severely felt and deeply deplored by his friends and family. When time, however, shall have abated and softened the poigancy of grief, the remembrance of his virtues will form the most effectual source of consolation and gradually reconcile them to a patient and humble acquiesance in the decress of an all-wise though mysterious Providence/' The statement, signed by "The Couriers/' from which the facts here related were for the most part obtained, was published by The Examiner on the 16th April, 1855. That was the first detailed ac¬ count of the disaster received by the public,—so slowly did the news travel seventy years ago. There was, however, in Haszard's Gazette of an earlier date and The Examiner of March 19th, 1855, a letter personal to the Hon. Edward Palmer , written by a gentleman resid¬ ent at Wallace, setting forth the facts in a general way and report¬ ing that—"the surviving passengers entirely clear the boats' crew from blame, and say that they did all that men could do/' , '' 1