"when the prisoner came on board, he noticed that my father," turning her eyes lovingly to him as he stood beside her, "was much fatigued and in a very weak state of health. my father was so reduced that i was afraid to take him out of the air, and i had made a bed for him on the deck near the cabin steps, and i sat on the deck at his side to take care of him. there were no other passengers that night, but we four.