"This course the directors finally decided to take, though considerable opposition was offered on this, among other grounds, that to dissolve the company was

to break faith with a number at home who had sent out men on shares. One evening out lawyer, Mr. Buxton, announced that all the releases were ready to be signed. Then, on the quarter-deck of the Fanny, the whole Co. signed a release to each and every man, became his

own master, to go where he liked."

The story is told locally that one of Mr. Stephen MacCallum's partners tried to murder him in California and left him for dead. According to this story, Mr. MacCallum was nursed back to health

by an Indian band and walked across North America from California

to his home at Brackley Point, P. E. I. rififlh

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