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 3S2 DISASTBB TO HJCS. aUABDIAK. i7aa The Kind attentions. Land At Ibble Bay. Fate of the Guardian. inlonned her people of oar distceaaes. We then Teered aboat^ «nd pat alongside her on the other tack. The people on board her crowded immediately to oar assistance, and reoeired us in the most friendly manner. As soon as we were alongside, several of them jomped in, and assisted in keeping the boat from being stove. This ship was named the Viscountess of Britannie, a French merchantman; Martin Doree, master, with part of Walsh's or 95th Regiment, from the Isle of France, to touch at the Cape ci Good Hope for a supply of water and provisions, on her way to Europe. The officers of this corps were unbounded in their friendship and attention towards us, a£Ebrding us every possible comfort, and even giving up their beds for our use. Jan. 18. — ^Ajt noon anchored in Table Bay, Cape of Grood 'H.ope, But to return to the ship. She continued some days in the same state as at the departure of the boats, at the money of the winds and waves, without a rudder, and every instant in danger of being swallowed up in the abyss. Attempts, however, were made by the crew occasionally to reduce the water, when their strength per- mitted, and thus, by wonderful exertions, was the Guardian k^ afloat till a Butch packet-boat from the Spice Islands and Batavia, providentially steering a high southerly latitude, fell in with her, afforded her aid of men and materials, and enabled her to make good her way back to the Cape of Good Hope, and kept her company during her course. The Guardian was full 400 leagues from the Cape when she fell in with the island of ice,.