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board at noon^ and attended to according* to my 

 instructions. Carron's legs 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 great a 

 risk to go to recover anything* from the tent, 

 moreover, with so small a party as the Captain, 

 Jackey, and myself, (Barrett really being unfit to 

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

 the Captain deserves considerable credit for his 

 actions throughout in exerting himself to rescue the 

 survivors. 



Dec. Qlst. — At daylight got under Aveigh and 

 took our departure from Weymouth Bay for Sydney. 

 Carron and Goddard were some considerable time in 

 getting* better ; the former being* subject to daily 

 fits of ague, &c. &c. 



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

 escape during* the night, whilst it Avas raining* and 

 blowing hard 5 we were at this time anchored about 

 one and a-half or two miles fi*om Turtle Beef, and a 

 distance of eight miles from Cape Bedford, the 

 nearest part of the mainland; made search on the 

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



