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Ship of the M o n t h - cont'd. 8. sengers were landed in the yawl boat on a sandy beach. After a short stay, the ship d e p a r t e d for the next port of call, an u n - n a m e d group of log cabins in a clearing. Then she sailed on to Sydenham, at the head of Owen Sound, where there was the benefit of a landing pier, and man y of the town's r e s i dents came to see the steamer upon her arrival. That evening, she ran the length of G e o r g i a n Bay to reach the next stop at Manitowaning. After a very short visit there, K A L O O L A H proceeded on to the Indian village of Little Current, where the residents had provided a stockpile of cordwood (for fuel) for the steamer. There was no dock here and the ship pulled up to the bank and tied to tree stumps. Once the "wooding-up" was completed, she was shoved off the shore wit h long poles. After the steamer d e p arted Litt le Current, the weather d e t e r i o r a t e d to the extent that once again they were forced to seek shelter. K A L O O L A H ran into Gore Harbour, where she was tied up to trees for the night. We return to K i n g s t o n ' s commentary: "We were to have left our a n c h o r a g e at e arly dawn; but, as the owner i n g e n uously informed me, the ma s t e r and the engineer, and even Luis the steward, overslept themselves, and thus it had been some time b road daylight before anyone was up to light the fires - an account some what p l e a s a n t l y sugg estive that it was not the custom of the ship to keep a watch on board. Truly, a c c ording to n a u tical notions, this inland n a v i g a t i o n is queer work. "When we got outside, we found it rain ing in torrents, and blow i n g almost as hard as ever from the north-east. On went the uncouth monster, r o l l i n g and scrambling, and shaking her life out w ith her engines jumping; her whole frame quivering, and her bulkheads and windows c r e a k i n g and rattling, o f feri ng a v e r y stro ng cont rast to the fair and beautiful A f r i c a n princess from who m she takes her name. Every n o w and then, a w i n d o w w o u l d b l o w in, and Luis w o u l d ha s t e n to m end it, as the rain found its way through the upper deck; or a door w ould burst open, and it was so cold wi t h a l that we were fain to sit, as we did yesterday, round the stove, wit h our faces roasting and our backs i c i n g . " KA L O O L A H a r r i v e d safely at Bruce Mines where oxen and p r o v i s i o n s were landed. Du r i n g the short visit, Kings t o n ran up to the mine where copper ore was being exc a v a t e d from an open pit. L e a v i n g there, the ship carr i e d on up the St. Mary's River to the Soo, where K i n g s t o n made these observa tions: "On the A m e r i c a n side a large steamer lay near the quay; and as we looked up the w a t e r y hill, we could see another above the rapids lett i n g off her steam, having just come in from the min i n g regions of Lake Superior. Pass i n g close to the A m e r i c a n shore and the entrance of the new canal, then lat e l y c o m menced, we shot close to the rapids across to the British side, and brought up at a woo d e n pier near the Hudson's Bay Company's p o s t . " At this point, in late S e ptember of 1854, K i n gston and his wife d i s e m b a r k e d from KALOOLAH. Fro m this remarkable (although perhaps somewhat exaggerated) de s c r i p t i o n of c o nditions aboard the steamer, it is a wonder that she su r v ived her serv ice on the stormy waters of Georgian Bay. Further comment on the c o ndition of K A L O O L A H comes from the late Captain Peter C. T elfer in a p r e s e n t a t i o n he made to the Owen Sound and Grey County H i s t o r i c a l Society on M arch 21st, 1921: " K ALOOLAH was a nice sidewheeler but pretty cranky, r e quir ing constant (use of) trim barrels, and these barrels being fi l l e d with sand were a tough job for the w a t c h m a n to handle" (move from side to side on the m ain deck as "ballast" - E d . ). In 1932, Capt. James M c C a n n e l (otherwise spelled "McCannell") w ro te an a r ticle entitled "Shipping Out of Collingwood" that a p p e a r e d in the Ontario H i s t o r i c a l Society's peri o d i c a l "Ontario History". Quoting from that source, we have: "January 1st, 1855, saw the entrance of the first pas s e n g e r train into Collingwood... That winter J. C. Morrison, p r esident of the railroad, ac c o m panied by Mr. Brunell, visited several Lake Erie ports to try to c h a r ter suitable steamers to run in c onnection wit h the r a i l r o a d to Chic a g o and Green Bay. They c h artered the fine p a l atial paddle steamers L ADY ELGIN,