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 110 SURVEY 01 ,?HE INRTROPICAI, Ist.  upon going round the south side, and bore up for that purpose; upon approaching the land, we found another current setting us to the north. . The next morning at nine o'clock, we passed round the Mome Brabant, the south.west point of the island, but it was four o'clock before we reached our anchorage, (at a cable's length, within the flag beacon, at the entrance of Port Louis,) in fifteen fathoms mud; we were then visited by the Health Officer, and afterwards by a boat from H. M. Ship Menai, which was at anchor in the port ;' but as it ws, s too late that evening to enter, the brig was not moved . until the following morning, when she was warped in and moored head and stern within the harbour. My wants were immediately made known to Captain Moresby, C.B. (of H. M. Ship Menai,) who directed the necessary repairs to be per.. formed by the carpenters of his ship; those ar- ticles which could not be supplied from the Menai's stores, were advertised for in the Mau- ritius Gazette, when the most reasonable tenders �were accepted. As many of the carpenters and caulkers of the Menai as eouid be spared from their oth occupations, were daily employed upon our m-

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