NARRATIVE, S^c. 



CHAPTER I. 



1 H E provisions and stores for the expedition having been 

 all shipped on board the Congo, and the Dorothy transport, 

 and the river being free from the ice, which had blocked it up 

 for many days, the tAvt) vessels quitted Deptford on the l6th 

 of February, and proceeded to the Nore, where the Congo's 

 crew received six months wages in advance ; and on the fol- 

 lowing morning (25th) we weighed and anchored the same 

 evening in the Downs, where we were detained until the 

 28th by strong westerly winds. On that day, the wind being 

 at N.N.W., we put to sea, but returning to S. W. when 



