RIVER NUN. 6l 



chor until twelve o'clock, when it cleared away, 

 and I obtained a meridian observation by which 

 I found that we were abreast of the river Dodo, 

 the current having set us into the bight. I 

 therefore got under weigh ; but finding the swell 

 still setting us in-shore, we were obliged to bring 

 her up again in five fathoms water. 



On the I6th, Harries was much worse and be- 

 came delirious ; Curling also had a relapse and 

 was worse ; — though neither of them would have 

 been considered dangerously ill in England. At 

 day-break, there being a light land-breeze, we tried 

 the vessel again under canvass, but could not get 

 her ahead. At nine we got up steam, and at five 

 p. M. anchored off the mouth of the river Nun, 

 in four and a half fathoms. On our arrival I was 

 much disappointed at not finding the Columbine, 

 as our fuel was expended. In the afternoon 

 Captain Harries and Curling were very ill, and 

 both of them delirious. 



At day-break of the 17th, a black pilot, named 

 Dedo, came on board in a canoe paddled by 

 twenty men, and offered to take the vessel into 

 the river : but having heard a bad account of 

 the Nun pilots, I thought it safer to take the gig 

 and examine the bar, at the same time allowing 



