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it for about five hours. At the end of which time it 

 seemed better to haul it up as we had taken nothing but 

 a medusa and a slaty stone. 



We found the boat sailed very fairly well a point off 

 the wind, and this day we had used the screw very 

 little, just keeping the fires banked against any sudden 

 call. 



At eieht o'clock on this evening we came to our anchor 

 in 4| fathoms of water, with 24 fathoms of our port cable 

 out. We were now just off the Sauchika river, as we 

 judged by a dead reckoning. That is to say, we were 

 lying about a mile from the coast, about sixteen miles to 

 the north of parallel 69°. 



Powys and I soon felt like clean run salmon, for getting 

 all the lumber out of the bath-room we had a bath for 

 the first time since leaving England. One of the draw- 

 backs to the extreme activity of the yacht Saxon was, 

 that even in an ordinary quiet swell the bath, when 

 filled, would respond at once by emptying itself all over 

 the floor. We had therefore made it into a store place 

 for bottles and many other things. 



An hour later we went ashore in the small boat. We 

 landed and got off again not without considerable diffi- 

 culty, because of the surf and the steepness of the beach. 

 Powys walked inland with the mate for sporting purposes. 

 I was alone, except for old Sailor the spaniel, and wanted 

 to inquire more carefully into this approach. 



I found that there was no river at all. It is quite true 



