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] All the repairs and caulking below the water line of the Erebus being completed by the evening of the 26th, she was hauled off at high water, and moored at a convenient distance from the pier. The next few days were occupied in thoroughly cleansing and ventilating the holds, whilst a strict and careful survey of all the remaining stores and provisions was being made by officers appointed to that duty; their reshipment was commenced on the 1st of June, and finished by the 7th.

Precisely similar operations were commenced upon the Terror; she was laid on the ground for examination and repair on the 22nd, and hove off again on the 25th.

In the evening of the 23rd a man-of-war was seen beating up Berkeley Sound, and on her anchoring, late at night, outside the narrows, I sent an officer on board, in case of her wanting the assistance of a pilot into the harbour. On his return, he informed me it was her Majesty's ship Carysfort, commanded by the Right Honourable Lord George Paulet, having on board a bowsprit, and a large supply of provisions and stores sent to us by Commodore Purvis, and also a quantity of private stock for which we had written to a merchant at Rio, and which must have been sent to us, at great expense, in a hired vessel, but for the kindness of Lord George Paulet in taking charge of them for us, notwithstanding the great bulk and the inconvenience attending their stowage in a vessel already deeply laden and encumbered with the