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was with the utmost difficulty my boat was enabled to 

 approach the strand, on account of' the high surf. At 

 the expense of a thorough wetting, at last, I succeeded 

 in getting on board my cutter, but had far greater dan- 

 ger soon to encounter. This bay having been imper- 

 fectly surveyed, many of the rocks that existed there 

 were not laid down in my chart, and, in consequence, 

 we were in the most imminent danger of foundering ; 

 but, fortunately, although the cutter twice struck, and 

 that very heavily, it chanced that her rudder only came 

 in contact with the rocks ; this, after being each time 

 lifted, fell again into its former position, and we at last 

 succeeded in hauling off the shore, and soon after sun- 

 set, anchored safely in the habour of Santa Maura. 



On the following morning we made a party to shoot 

 in Greece, and having started early for that purpose, we 

 traversed a great part of the ground opposite the town 

 with but indifferent success, until in the midst of a jun- 

 gle near to me, hearing a double shot, and a glorious 

 woohoop, I went to the spot, and found one of my 

 friends, his gun having been loaded with snipe shot only, 

 had turned over two deer, which of course were passing 

 very close, the one quite dead ; the second succeeded in 

 getting up and hiding itself in the bush, nor could we 

 afterwards recover it. 



In my second day's chase, not very far from the same 

 ground, our party succeeded in bringing home, after 

 very bad shooting on our parts, seventy-five woodcocks, 

 at which I, for one, was very well satisfied. 



We set sail on our return home that night ; and, to my 

 infinite annoyance, when a considerable distance from 



