OUR LARGER BOAT — THE QUORRA. 5 



trade up the river. But after a personal com- 

 munication with Mr. Lander, it was deemed ad- 

 visable to depend solely on the trade in the 

 interior for the returns; to fit out tiuo steam- 

 vessels of light draught of water, to carry it on 

 in the upper part of the river, while the sail- 

 ing vessel waited at the mouth to receive their 

 cargoes. 



As no steam-vessels, with the exception of 

 a small iron one, were to be met with suitable 

 for the purpose, it was determined to build a 

 larger of the following dimensions : — length 112, 

 beam 16, depth 8 feet, with a poop as high as 

 the waist, to give the requisite accommodation 

 for the officers. The keel of this vessel was laid 

 on the 28th March, and by considerable exer- 

 tions she was launched on the 2l9th May. Her 

 engine was a single one of forty-horse power, 

 manufactured by Messrs. Fawcett and Preston 

 of Liverpool, who had a considerable share in 

 the enterprise; and it is but justice to these 

 gentlemen to say, that the machinery of the 

 engine, which commonly produces so much un- 

 easiness to commanders of steam-vessels, was 

 never for a moment throughout the voyage a 

 subject of concern to any one : it seemed to 



