312 PLAYA PARDA—ABRA—RORJA. April 1830. 
experienced no current. At daylight we were in the entrance of 
the ‘ Long Reach,’ abreast of Cape Monday. 
While passing the opening opposite to Playa Parda, a 
schooner was observed at anchor, and a boat was seen coming 
out to us. It contained the mate of the schooner Industry, of 
New Bedford, who informed us that she had been lying there, 
weather-bound, for nearly a month. He came to make inquiries 
about good anchorages to the westward (having already lost 
two anchors), and to learn in what part of the Strait he was ; 
his own idea being, that the vessel was under Cape Monday. 
Having given him the required information, we proceeded ; 
but the wind fell light, and we were glad to anchor in the 
cove of Playa Parda. With our chains we found it safe; but 
the bottom, being rocky, would probably do much injury to 
hempen cables. 
The opening opposite to us, where the schooner was lying, 
was evidently Sarmiento’s ‘ Abra.’ It appeared to us to be a 
mile and a half wide, with an island in the entrance. Within, 
it seemed to take a south, then a south-west direction, and 
afterwards to trend round a low hummocky point of the eastern 
shore, under a high, precipitous ridge, on the opposite or wes- 
tern shore, towards the S.E.; beyond this its course could 
not be observed. When passing through this part of the Strait, 
Captain Stokes found the weather so bad, that although the 
distance across was only two or three miles, the shores were 
often concealed by clouds and rain, so as to render it impossible 
for him to make any survey of them. 
We were detained the two following days by bad weather. 
On the 5th we proceeded, but before we got abreast of Snowy 
Sound, heavy rain set in, which lasted all day. 
As we passed Borja Bay, a schooner was observed at anchor 
in it, so like the Adelaide, that we altered our course to com- 
municate with her. From a boat which came off to us, we 
learned that it was a sealing-vessel, called the Hope, of New 
York, going through the Strait, from Staten Land. She had 
seen nothing of the Adelaide. 
When abreast of Bachelor River, a canoe, containing two 
