NARRATIVE, &e. 
CHAPTER I. 
Tus provisions and stores for the expedition having been 
all shipped on board the Congo, and the Dorothy transport, 
and the river being free from the ice, which had blocked it up 
for many days, the two vessels quitted Deptford on the 16th 
of February, and proceeded to the Nore, where the Congo’s 
crew received six months wages in advance; and on the fol- 
lowing morning (25th) we weighed and anchored the same 
evening in the Downs, where we were detained until the 
28th by strong westerly winds. On that day, the wind being 
at N.N.W., we put to sea, but returning to S.W. when 
