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norance or carelessness, or both, was carried over- 

 board by the buoy-rope, and followed the anchor to 

 the bottom. It is remarkable, that, in this very cri- 

 tical situation, he had presence of mind to disengage 

 himself, and come up to the surface of the water, 

 where he was taken up, with one of his legs fractured 

 in a dangerous manner. 



Early the next morning we gave the ship a good 

 heel to port, in order to come at and stop the leak. 

 On ripping off the sheathing, it was found to be in 

 the seams, which were very open, both in and under 

 the wale ; and, in several places, not a bit of oakum 

 in them. While the carpenters were making good 

 these defects, we filled all our empty water-casks at 

 a stream hard by the ship. The wind was now mo- 

 derate, but the weather was thick and hazy, with 

 rain. 



The natives, who left us the preceding day, when 

 the bad weather came on, paid us another visit this 

 morning. Those who came first were in small ca- 

 noes ; others afterward arrived in large boats ; in one 

 of which were twenty women and one man, besides 

 children. 



In the evening of the 16th, the weather cleared 

 up ; and we then found ourselves surrounded on every 

 side by land. Our station was on the east side of 

 the sound, in a place which in the chart is distin- 

 guished by the name of Snug Corner Bay ; and a 

 very snug place it is. I went, accompanied by some 

 of the officers, to view the head of it ; and we found 

 that it was sheltered from all winds ; with a depth of 

 water from seven to three fathoms over a muddy bot- 

 tom. The land near the shore is low ; part clear and 

 part wooded. The clear ground was covered, two 

 or three feet thick, with snow ; but very little lay in 

 the woods. The very summits of the neighbouring 

 hills were covered with wood ; but those farther in- 

 land seemed to be naked rocks, buried in snow. 



The leak being stopped, and the sheathing made 



