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he will find it usually disappears just as the vessel 

 has completed the tedious manoeuvres necessary to 

 come up to it. The next question was, should we 

 venture further ? The mail steamer was just coming 

 out behind us, and it wouldn't look well to give up. 

 We would try for Cape Bona vista. By ten o'clock 

 the Cape was safely rounded, and the wind in- 

 creasing we determined to lay into the Bay, which 

 is twenty-eight miles across. We should not have 

 reached Greenspond, north of the bay, that night, had 

 we steamed the course we intended ; but after some 

 hours steaming and seeing no land, we spied a fish- 

 ing boat, and went alongside for information as to 

 our locality: We found we were already across the 

 bay to our great surprise and joy. It appeared that 

 Dr. Bobardt, who had steered all day, had headed 

 two points to the westward of his course. 



We were loath to steam on Sunday, but our next 

 run round Cape Freels was a most difficult one, from 

 the numberless off-lying rocks and shoals. So when 

 three a.m. showed a clear horizon and a calm sea, 

 we started off. Alas, fog fell on us shortly, and left 

 us threading our way through the labyrinth. Now 

 and again we could see bottom, and at times some 

 rock near the surface, over which at intervals the 

 swell would break with a noise like thunder. The 

 Princess May did well this day covering eighty 

 miles and the mail steamer, which had only just 

 reached and was anchored for the night in Toulin- 

 guet Harbour, was surprised to see us come in and 



