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friends in the coal-mining town, and
many of the miners answered the call
now. Later in his adventurous career he
had need of his Nanaimo friends to help
him in a worse predicament.

Jemmy Jones married, and it might
have appeared he was destined to settle
down to an uneventful life—that is, as
uneventful as was possible in a seafaring
life calling for contending with strong
tides and winds in sailing craft amid the
rocky islands of the west coast. Jemmy
even escaped any further shipwrecks for
a time.

3ut Jemmy Jones had ambitions to
keep abreast of the times. The modern
ship of that day combined sail and steam
power. In partnership with Franklin
Sherman, a shipwright at Port Townsend,
Wash., he planned to build a new vessel,
to be called The Jenny Jones, but to
finance this venture Capt. Jones had to
sell The Wild Pigeon” and Carolena.

Even so, Jemmy still remained heavily
in debt. Jemmy could not read or write
—in which he did not differ greatly from
many men in his day. He trusted to a
good memory in business matters, but
perhaps his memory worked less well
when it came to paying his own debts.

SUSPECTED OF PRIVATEERING

The Civil War was now raging in the
United States, and the energetic little
Welshman fell under suspicion of fitting
out a vessel for privateering. San Fran-
cisco was the Pacific naval base of the
United States fleet, and newspapers of
that city hinted that the real mission of
the U.S.S. Narragansett in making a
northern cruise as far as Victoria was not
a courtesy visit, but to have a look at a
suspicious craft being fitted out there.
Capt. Jemmy Jones convinced the visitors
that neither he nor his vessel had a
piratical appearance.

Jemmy had his first brush with the
United States courts on one of his early
voyages in his new schooner. He arrived
in Portland with thirty casks of ale and
twenty casks of porter. There was some-
thing irregular about the shipment, with
the result that the liquor and the ship
were seized. But the plausible little
Welshman talked himself out of this diffi-
culty, and brought the Jenny Jones back
to Victoria to have her machinery instal-
led by Messrs. Spratt & Kriemler of the
Albion Ironworks.

Jemmy now bought out his partner.
After taking the United States consul
from Victoria, and Governor Pickering
of Washington Territory on an inspec-
tion of Indian settlements from Neah
Bay to Cape Flattery, he secured a year’s
contract to carry United States mail be-
tween Victoria and points on Puget
Sound.

Jemmy’s memory of his debt was badly
jogged about two months later. Just as
his steamer was ready to sail to Olympia
a sheriff's officer marched aboard and
tacked a notice of seizure on the main-

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