Jules Verne 
Survivors of the Chancellor 
Diary of J. R. Kazallon, Passenger

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The Chancellor is a fine square-rigged three-master, Of 900 tons burden, and belongs to the wealthy Liverpool firm of Laird Brothers. She is two years Old, is sheathed and secured with copper, her decks being of teak, and the base of all her masts, except the mizen, with all their fittings, being of iron. She is registered first class A I, and is now on her third voyage between Charleston and Liverpool. As She wended her way through the channels of Charleston harbour, it was the British flag that was lowered from her mast-head but without colours at all, no sailor could have hesitated for a moment in telling her nationality, – for English she was, and nothing but English from her water-line upwards to the truck of her masts. I must now relate how it happens that I have taken my passage on board the Chancellor on her return voyage to England.