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144 quall from the mountains blew with uch violence, that it prevented us for ome time from making ue of our rudder, o that we were in danger of running foul of ome of the hips which lay at anchor in the road. However, we oon run pat them, and tood for the offing.

18th. About eight in the morning our mater-carpenter, Louis Gargan, died, a victim to the excees in which he had indulged during our tay at the Cape. A fever, which appeared light in its commencement, grew afterwards o violent as to put an end to his life. We felt the los of this man the more enibly, as the carpenter of a hip is one of the mot ueful perons on board, epecially in a voyage undertaken for the purpoe of dicovery in the midt of eas full of rocks and hoals, where one is in perpetual danger of being hipwrecked, and where, if one does not poes the means of contructing another veel to receive the crew, all hopes of reviiting one's native country mut go with the wreck to the bottom.

Two perons had concealed themelves in the hip before our departure from the Cape, and did not make their appearance upon deck till we were o far from the land that it was no more practicable to put them on hore. They were, of coure, permitted to accompany us. The one was a oldier, deerted from the garrion at the Cape; the other