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A.M., when we anchored in Yarmouth roads 1824. 

 until ten A.M.^ for the purpose of exchanging June, 

 our pilot. We then weighed and ran through 

 the Cockle Gat. From Yarmouth I informed 

 their lordships of our proceedings up to this 

 date. 



We had arrived off Scarborough by the 

 afternoon of the 20th, when the wind fell, 

 and it was not until the forenoon of the 22d, 

 that we came abreast of Whitby. 



At dayhght of the 23d, being off Shields, 

 we discharged the pilots by whom I sent a 

 letter to the Secretary of the Admiralty. Light 

 airs and calms, with fogs and rain, detained us 

 here until noon of the 26th ; and as a constant 

 and heavy ground swell continued during 

 the whole of this time, I was sorry to ob- 

 serve that the Griper, from her great depth 

 and sharpness forward, pitched very deeply. 

 During our delay several looms and puffins 

 which were very numerous, were killed, and 

 in a Httle excursion for the purpose of try- 

 ing my Esquimaux canoe, one of the officers 

 was upset in it, and very narrowly escaped 

 drowning, as he was much exhausted by his 

 endeavours to extricate himself, before we 

 could come to his assistance in the attendant 

 boat. With a moderate breeze from the east- 



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