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1824. torn by frequent soundings at one hundred 

 Sept. fathoms. The wind freshened to a gale in the 

 first watch^ and we again experienced the same 

 extraordinary and alarming sea^ or *' race," as 

 on the 29th August and 20th of this month, 

 and the ship lay like a vessel water-logged, and 

 took it over on all sides. At ten P.M. it filled 

 and washed away our stern-boat, with some 

 boats' arm and provision, and instrument- 

 chests which were stowed in her, and very fre- 

 quently fell in a heavy wave over the taffril. 

 We kept, however, a little head-way on the 

 ship under the main-topsail and trysail, and on 

 the morning of the 24th the wind moderated 

 so as to allow of our making more sail. We 

 gained a little easting, and at noon obtained 

 meridional altitude. 



At three P.M. land was reported ahead, and 

 to our most agreeable surprise we found it, by 

 a set of sights which had at first been rejected 

 as taken too near noon, to be Cape Wolsten- 

 holm. In an hour or two some remarkable 

 points which had been set when we first passed 

 the Cape, were clearly seen, and our situation 

 most accurately ascertained, shewing, that in 

 addition to our excellent run (having averaged 

 ^ve knots for twenty-four hours, a rate at which 

 the Griper had never before arrived on this 



