2G0 SUPPLY BARQUE PAMELIA WITH ESCULENTS. 



CHAPTER XI. 



On the 16tli of February, after having added three 

 new men to our crew, (two of them Englishmen, the 

 third a Swede,) we hove short, and at 3 P. M. stood out 

 of the bay. On arriving off Cape Naturaliste, some 

 twenty miles from our place of anchorage, we sighted 

 a sail that proved to be the barque Pamelia, ^^•hich 

 was hovering off this locality, to intercept the 

 barque Eagle, which was to bring her third mate out, 

 and also provisions for her consumption. Esculents 

 she needed very much, as several of her people, the 

 captain amongst the number, were affected by scurvy. 

 "We supplied them temporarily, and thus kept off 

 that disease, which occasions so much terror to the 

 seaman. She contemplated returning home in a 

 short time, and several of her crew, whose motives I 

 cannot fathom, not contented with a three-vears' so- 

 journ in these waters, exchanged into the ship Lap- 

 wing, that had some twenty months more to remain. 

 They must either have had an overweening desire to 

 acquire money, or else there were but few attractions 

 at home to induce them to return. 



After leaving the bay, we steered to the southeast, 

 in hopep of picking up a whale or two ; but we met 

 only with strong gales of wind, which put whaling 

 out of the question. We then returned to the north- 

 ward, and had the like success : nothing occurring 



