124 DIRECTIONS FOR ANCHORING. [1844. 



course to meet him, we found on his rejoining us, that 

 we had to seek Manado in the deep bight to the east- 

 ward, and a brisk sea-breeze setting in soon after, enabled 

 us to descry the colours on the Fort. On our approach, a 

 canoe with a ragged black soldier, or Peon, came off to us, 

 but as he could neither speak, nor make himself under- 

 stood by any signs, he was not further noticed. As we 

 approached the town, off which a barque under Dutch 

 colours was at anchor, we were visited by her mate, an 

 Englishman, who most kindly offered his assistance in 

 piloting us into this most awkward port. It is, indeed, 

 of so critical a character that, unassisted, we should 

 have felt some difficulty about anchoring so completely 

 under the face of a hill, and had it been two hours later, 

 we could not have effected an entrance that night, as 

 a land breeze commenced fresh off shore, before w& 

 were secured. The soundings decrease suddenly from 

 sixty to thirty, fifteen, and five fathoms, so that it is 

 necessary to approach the shore obliquely, or alongshore ; 

 and, in order to get bottom at thirty fathoms, the anchor 

 must be dropped as soon as the cast of sixty is obtained ; 

 the stream anchor must be immediately placed inshore 

 in one fathom, and the ship secured by it from the land- 

 wind. By four o'clock this had been effected. 



No officer, or messenger of any description, had visited 

 Her Majesty's Ship ' Samarang ' with her Colours and 

 Pendant displayed, and I afterwards ascertained that the 

 information given by Lieutenant Baugh of the Ship's name, 

 and her destination, &c., had been duly conveyed from 

 the first or Lower Fort before the ' Samarang ' anchored. 

 I, further, sent a message by the mate of the Dutch barque, 



