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board at noon, and attended to according* to my 

 instructions. Carron's leg's were dreadfully swollen, 

 about three times their natural size, from oedema. 

 In the afternoon both reviving* and thanking* God 

 for their deliverance. I was for some time afraid 

 of Carron. At ten p.m. — they are both doing* well, 

 and, I trust, will be enabled to tell their own tale, 

 which renders it unnecessary for me to write it 

 down here. I told the Captain to proceed direct on 

 to Sydney. Jackey, Carron, and Goddard, and the 

 Captain, stating* it would be running* too g"reat a 

 risk to g*o to recover anything* from the tent, 

 moreover, with so small a party as the Captain, 

 Jackey, and myself, (Barrett really being' unfit to 

 g*o), and the sailors all refusing* to g*o. I consider 

 the Captain deserves considerable credit for his 

 actions throuo-hout in exertino- himself to rescue the 

 survivors. 



Dec. 3l5#. — At daylig-ht g*ot under weig'h and 

 took our departure from Weymouth Ba}^ for Sydney. 

 Carron and Goddard were some considerable time in 

 g-etting* better ; the former being* subject to daily 

 fits of ag'ue, &c. &c. 



Jan. 11th, 1849. — The black native had made his 

 escape during* the nig-ht, whilst it was raining- and 

 blowino- hard ; we were at this time anchored about 

 one and a-half or two miles from Turtle Beef, and a 

 distance of eig"ht miles from Cape Bedford, the 

 nearest part of the mainland 5 made search on the 

 reef, but saw no marks of him j a strong* current was 



