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ress over our twenty-five mile course to Fresh Creek, but later 
in the day a series of light breezes and calms delayed our progress 
to such an extent that we were compelled to run in behind High 
Cay for a night’s shelter just after dark, about six miles distant 
from our objective point. However, by an early start next 
morning, Fresh Creek was reached shortly after sunrise. Here 
Commissioner H. O. Wright, who sighted our boat while still 
outside the reef, came aboard with a local pilot, who took our 
vessel into the mouth of the creek at high tide, to an anchorage 
Fig. 17. The “Nellie Leonora” at anchor inside the mouth of Fresh Creek, op- 
posite the settlement of Fresh Creek. 
in the deep water behind the bar, thus giving us the only smooth 
and perfectly safe anchorage we had during the trip. One of 
the ship’s boats was at once loaded with supplies and camp 
equipment, and we proceeded some fifteen miles up the creek 
to the water-shed, and made camp on a dry sand-bar about the 
middle of the island, in the vicinity of the fresh-water lagoons 
which exist in that region. After successful operations at this 
point, we returned to the vessel and sailed up the coast for about 
