The crews were made up of the
very best class of self-respecting sea-faring men. Woodruff,
Kendrick's first mate, had been with Cook. Joseph Ingraham, the second
mate, rose to become a captain. Robert Haswell, the third mate, was
the son of a British naval officer. Richard Howe went as accountant;
Dr. Roberts, as surgeon; Nutting, formerly a teacher, as astronomer;
and Treat, as fur trader. Davis Coolidge was the first mate under Gray
on the _Lady Washington_.
Some heroes blunder into glory. These didn't. They deliberately set
out with the full glory of their venture in view. Whatever the profit
and loss account might show when they came back, they were well aware
that they were attempting the very biggest and most venturesome thing
the newly federated states had essayed in the way of exploration and
trade. To {215} commemorate the event, Joseph Barrell had medals
struck in bronze and silver showing the two vessels on one side, the
names of the outfitters on the other. All Saturday afternoon sailors
and officers came trundling down to the wharf, carpet bags and seamen's
chests in tow, to be rowed out where the Columbia and Lady Washington
lay at anchor.
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