14 PERCY SLADEN TRUST EXPEDITION. 
the previous night, but had not sufficient light to enter. Lying-to the ship had been 
drifted during the night about 20 miles to the eastward by a current from the west, while 
actually a stiff wind from east-south-east was blowing. Going on board we found one 
of our boxes for water-samples, which was being filled by the captain during his run 
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Diego Garcia Atoll (after Admiralty charts). 
between Ceylon and Mauritius, this being a line which was regularly worked for us 
during the year by the British India Steam Navigation Company. 
Diego Garcia was first surveyed by Capt. Blair, of the Hon. East India Company’s 
Marine, in 1786, and subsequently by Capt. Moresby, of the same service, in 1837. It 
was for some time adopted by the Orient Line as a coaling-station between the Red Sea 
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