^ PASSAGE ALONG 



1824. Griper having been found too deeply laden 

 June, to cross the Atlantic^ was to accompany us to 

 the entrance of Hudson's Strait, whence she 

 would afterwards proceed to Newfoundland. 

 On the IGth Commissioner Cunningham ar- 

 rived from Chatham, and the ship's company 

 received their river pay, with three months' ad- 

 vance ; when, having provided themselves with 

 such a portion of warm clothing as my former 

 experience in the Polar seas caused me to in- 

 sist on their purchasing, and having sent their 

 wives on shore, at four P.M. we weighed 

 in company with the Snap, and made sail for 

 the Swin. We now found that being in salt 

 water, the ship drew sixteen feet one inch 

 abaft, and fifteen feet ten inches forward. 

 At night-fall his majesty's ship Brisk passed, 

 and Captain Hope honoured us with three 

 cheers, informing me at the same time that 

 Captain Parry had passed through the Pent- 

 land Frith. We anchored off the buoy of the 

 Mouse, and were detained until daylight of 

 the 18th, by a strong' north-east wind. It 

 then moderated from the northward, and we 

 weighed. 



On the morning of the 19th the wind 

 veered to the southward, and we had a toler- 

 ably good run until thirty minutes after seven. 



