Consequently I was greatly pleased to receive what promised to be a lucrative contract from a Canadian railway company for supplying and installing a quantity of electrical apparatus along their line.

I at once invested every penny I could raise in the purchase of material and in the charter of a sailing vessel to transport it to this country.

On the eve of sailing I married a young lady to whom I had long been engaged, and, with light hearts, we set forth on our wedding trip across the Atlantic.
"The first two weeks of that voyage were filled with such happiness that I trembled for fear it should be snatched from me.

During that time we had fair weather and favouring winds.

Then we ran into a gale that lasted for days, and drove us far out of our course.