“Did the steamer sit low in the water, or was she well up?” asked Mr. Pelham.
“I am not a nautical man, and I am not a competent judge; but I should say she was more out of the water than the Marian,” replied the doctor.
“Could you tell what color she was painted?”
“Black, while the vessel she was towing was green; and I noticed this fact particularly, for it was an odd color for a vessel, as I understood the matter. I was going to say, in regard to the steamer, that she was not black the whole length of her, on the side next to me.”
“On which hand did you leave the steamer and her tow, Goodwin?” asked Mr. Pelham, beginning to be a little excited over the matter.
“This was off Ushant; and we were on the shore hand of her.”
“You left her on the starboard hand; and the steamer was headed which way?”
“She was going a little east of north; and I concluded that she intended to make either Plymouth or Southampton. She may have gone more to the eastward when she was well up with the cape,” added Capt. Goodwin.
“Then it was the starboard side of the steamer that was seen by Dr. Phelps?”
“Certainly it was: she was on our starboard, headed to the northward,” replied Goodwin.