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nessed, and I was quite astonished at the accuracy 

 with which he remembered the various places we 

 had visited during the vo3^age : he seemed to have 

 carried the ship's track in his memory with the 

 most careful accuracy. His description of the ship's 

 sailing and anchoring were most amusing : he used 

 to say, *' Ship walk — walk — all night — hard walk — 

 then by and by, anchor tumble down." His manner 

 of describing his interviews with the " wicked 

 northern men," was most graphic. His countenance 

 and figure became at once instinct with anhnation 

 and energy, and no doubt he was then influenced by 

 feelings of baffled hatred and revenge, from having 

 failed in his much- vaunted determination to carry 

 off in triumph one of their gins. I would sometimes 

 amuse myself by asking him how he was to excuse 

 himself to his friends for having failed in the pre- 

 mised exploit, but the subject was evidently a 

 very unpleasant one, and he was always anxious to 

 escape from it. 



In spite of all Miago's evocations for a change of 

 wind we did not see Rottenest Island before the 

 morning of the 25th. The ship's track on the chart 

 after passing the N.W. Cape, resembled the figure 

 seven, the tail pointing towards the north. We 

 passed along the south side of Rottenest, and by keep- 

 ino^ its south-western extreme shut in with the south 

 point, cleared the northern end of the foul ground 

 extending N.N.W. from a cluster of high rocks 

 called the Stragglers. As Gage Road was not con- 



