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signals in vain for a boat from the east battery, under 
which the ships were lying at anchor. We ran back to the 
town and down to the other place of landing, hoping to 
find them there, but were now informed, to our great as- 
tonishment, that the boat, which had brought us on shore, 
had been upset in the surf when going out again, with all 
the offlcers. Captain’'T'uckey succeeded in reaching the 
shore by swimming, and escaped with the loss of his sword. 
Lieut. Hawkey’s foot was entangled in a rope, and he was 
with much difficulty and almost lifeless brought on shore 
by Captain Tuckey and a negro. The fat purser wisely 
saved himself on the bottom of the boat. ‘Thus they all 
got pretty well off, but their fright had made them forget 
us entirely. We were therefore once more obliged to 
return to the town, and take up our lodgings at a kind of 
public-house, kept by a fat negro woman, to whom we 
left the care of providing for our dinner, of washing our 
linen, &c. We were better accommodated than we ex- 
pected. Before day break we were upon the alert, look- 
ing out for the landing of the gentlemen from the ship, 
with instruments, books, &c. for our excursion to the inte- 
rior of the island. We waited impatiently tll ten o’clock, 
but were disappointed. In the mean while we took a walk 
round the town, and descended into the plain to the east 
side. Here are several wells, one of which in particular 
supplies the town with water. Itis about three fathoms deep, 
and its water was the temperature of 76° of Fahrenheit. 
A great number of half-naked negro men and women 
flocked down to fetch water from this well. ‘Tudor, in his 
