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while off there we took our second repast. The 

 seamen boiled the kettle for us in the little 

 cabin, and our young gallants showed their 

 skill by bringing to the ladies brimming cups 

 of tea, unspilt, across the rolling deck. We 

 reached Corrie at seven in the evening, and 

 were welcomed with a salute of good wishes. 



Wednesday, August 27. 



The weather now seems to alternate day by 

 day. We have had to-day a wild thundering 

 sea and heavy rain until evening. At sunset 

 the tide ran one way and a squall of wind 

 blew in an opposite direction. The result was 

 curious. The sea was covered with a shivering 

 ripple, and the colours of the sky amber, 

 bronze, blue, black were sent shimmering over 

 the water as if they had been laid on with a 

 great brush, and were then as suddenly with- 

 drawn. 



Before dark I walked as far as a little 



