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215 Sunday Nov 2nd,- Warm with showers this morning, about 9 Am had a shock of an Earthquake here, in fact" tow or three shocks,- as there was not any signs of Steamer, and, as the agent did not seem to care whether she came or not,- the passengers here called a meeting, and voted to send a boat down the Lake in search of her unclear chartered a Boat, and some 6 or 8 started off in pursuit of same,- at dark, nothing had been seen, or heard, from the steamer, or boat that left here this Am- those that left in the boat, this am, expected to keep right on to the Atlantic if they did not see the Steamer unclear so we are to spend another night here, have my hammock engaged,- Monday Nov 3rd,- Showers again this morning, as theres no signs of the Steamer this morning- the Agent here, has concluded to charter a Schooner here, to take the passengers down- and while we were going on board the Steamer drove in sight, and we waited for her, she finally arrived safe- had been detained by going over the Falls at the Rapids "so called"- by some mismanagement unclear, several lives were lost, altho no damage done to the Boat, they were several days getting her back again- just at night we went on board of her and started for Revas. some 8 or 10 miles further up the Lake, where most of our passengers are