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8 A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY 
ning the risk of losing an anchor and cable. In 
consideration of these circumstances it was deemed 
the most proper measure to put back to Yarmouth 
Roads, which was the nearest port, and there to re- 
main until we should be favoured with wind that 
would enable us to resume our voyage with some 
prospect of success. Our stay here was, agreeably 
to our wishes, of very short duration, for we only 
arrived at half past one o’clock, and, about midnight, 
we were again under weigh. During the time we 
lay in the Roads, we were visited by Captain Wells 
and some of the officers-of His Majesty’s ship Wye, 
which lay at anchor. 
Saturday, 15th. — We have been employed all day 
working to the northward, and in the evening it fell 
calm, so that we were as usual obliged to anchor, to 
prevent our being carried by the tide amongst the 
sands that lie off this part of the coast. 
Sunday, 16th. — We got under weigh again early this 
morning, and made all sail, the wind having at length 
sprung up right in our favour ; this being the Griper’s 
worst point of sailing, she was again taken in tow. 
In the course of the forenoon, divine service was per- 
formed, which almost the whole of the officers and 
ship’s company were able to attend, the weather 
being so fine that their duty was not required on 
deck. During the day, we passed several flocks of that 
species of diver called by Linnzus Colymbus Traile, 
and commonly known to seamen, bythe name of Loon, 
or Willock. ‘These birds must be very widely scat- 
tered over the northern seas; for we found them last 
year in great numbers in Davis’s Straits, and Baffin’s 
Bay, and occasionally in different parts of the At- 
antic during our passage across it, 
