350 FURTHER NEWS BY THE IOWA. 



thence homeward. And, lastly, Cunningham too is 

 gone ! Whilst we, who are left, have been forty- 

 months from home, and are still battling with the 

 ocean's elements — alas ! in pocket, poor indeed, and 

 hopefully longing for home. 



"We also learned from the Iowa, that the New 

 Yorker, whom we left at Port Louis, had been dis- 

 charged from the Hospital, perfectly recovered ; and 

 that he, together with an Irishman, also discharged 

 there by us, had solicited and obtained employment 

 in the police-force of that port. 



The rest of those whom we left at Port Louis, 

 never having done anything to entitle them to re- 

 membrance, we neither know nor care what has be- 

 come of them, with the exception of our late fourth 

 mate, who deserves mention singly on account of his 

 utter uselessness. From the same source, we learn that 

 he shipped, and left Mauritius in the barque Eagle, 

 as boatsteerer. In this new position he will, no 

 doubt, act with about as much credit to himself, and 

 receive as unenviable a name and reputation, as he 

 did among us. 



A few days subsequent to the above date we 

 saw and gammoned the barque Coimbra. She had 

 sailed from Mauritius a few days after our leaving; 

 but, owing to the sickness of her captain, was forced 

 to return, and remain ten additional days. The cap- 

 tain of this vessel, quite an original, hailed from ISTevv 

 Brunswick, and was a veritable Blue ISTose — long, 

 lank, and parsimonious. He has had during the 

 voyage three different crews, who for some reason 

 or other left him after a cruise or two. Early in the 

 voyage a veto was put by the authorities of Vasse 



