November 25 Monday – The Batavia reached Boston. Sam de-boarded and took Englishman C.F. Wood and Fijian servant on an express train for Hartford. Near Enfield, Conn. the train narrowly avoided being derailed by a drunk New Haven printer attempting to exact revenge for being forcibly thrown off a train for lack of fare. The Hartford Times Nov. 27 gave account of one Horace Blakeslee, who tried four times to derail trains by placing heavy ties on the tracks. Sam arrived in Hartford after a three-month absence [MTL 5: 230n1]. C.F. Wood and servant spent the night with Sam at Hartford. The billiard table was used [231n2].