434 BREEZE OFF CAPE FAREWELL. [CHAP.VI. 



moveably fastened to six ring-bolts on the quarter 

 deck. The effect was at once manifested, by a 

 great diminution in the working of the parts 

 already mentioned, and in a less agreeable way, 

 by impeding our rate of sailing ; a trifling con- 

 sideration, however, when compared with the 

 benefit received. Another man was added to the 

 sick list, a second showed symptoms of scurvy, 

 and the same evening Mr. Webster, the gunner, 

 was similarly affected. Nothing could be more 

 favourable than the wind and weather had hitherto 

 been since quitting Hudson's Strait, but though 

 many additional bolts and supports had been 

 placed abaft, yet the working of the ship, as she 

 was thrown about by the sea or swell, began 

 sensibly to loosen the bolt-heads in the heel-hook, 

 while the lining was much swollen. The only 

 immediate remedy for these unavoidable evils, 

 was the substituting more shores to counteract the 

 effect, and give what strength we could. 



August 1 1th. The stay bolts in the tiller broke, 

 owing to a rather heavy swell from the south- 

 west acting against a northerly breeze, which 

 rolled us about a great deal. From that time 

 we went on slowly, without material change, until 

 the 15th, when, having rounded the broad point 

 of Cape Farewell, we were all at once exposed to 

 a swell from the north east, which, though the 

 breeze entirely died away, increased to such a 



