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was unfit and unsafe, and further, that the lives of the 

 Bremen crew would be jeoparded. Still the Bremeners 

 most handsomely declared that they would stick by their 

 friend so long as a fair chance remained of fulfilling his 

 contract ; and to prevent risk on all sides, as well as to 

 afford assistance, our crew aided in getting the vessel into 

 the water. When this was effected, and after great diffi- 

 culty, she was secured in the anchorage of San Vicente, 

 near Ivana, it was found perfectly impossible to proceed 

 in her ; arranging their money affairs, therefore, very much 

 I believe to the satisfaction of all parties, the Bremeners 

 joined the ' Samarang ' with lighter hearts, and our own 

 immediate affairs settled, we quitted this, our pet island, 

 on the 30th of November. As the breeze, during the 

 night and succeeding day, gave us a velocity of between 

 eight and ten knots, under small canvas, our friends 

 congratulated themselves on what they deemed an escape. 

 Up to the period of departure, there were no signs of 

 the 'Royalist', but having given Manila, as well as 

 Hong-Kong, as secondary rendezvous, in the event of 

 accident to spars, which was suspected, I still looked for 

 her at the port we were now bound for. In this I was 

 not mistaken, as we found, on being boarded by the guard- 

 boat, passing the Corregidor, that her arrival was notified 

 some days before, and on our passing Cavite, on the 6th 

 of December, her signal was descried at her mast-head, 

 showing over the Arsenal. Calms and variable winds 

 prevented dropping anchor off Manila until late that 

 evening, but on the arrival of her Commander, Lieut. 

 Ogle, he acquainted me, that in the gale experienced off 

 the Pratas, he had sprung his fore-mast badly, and 



