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on; but, having the chronometer and a sextant to take care of, 
I waited till one of the men returned with a lantern. All 
reached the boat before nine o'clock, without losing or injuring 
any thing; but the eargo of stones, for specimens, which each 
brought backs delayed our returning progress materially. 
** At day-light (21st) we ieaarehed and stowed our boat, 
and set out on our return. We reached the ship that after- 
noon, well laden with fragments of Cape Horn. 
<¢ 22d. Since the end of March the weather had been more 
settled, and much finer than we had yet had it on any part of 
the coast ; but our visit to Horn Island was only just in time, 
for it soon changed again to blowing and raining. Being close 
to the head of the cove, we did not feel the williwaws—though 
they appeared to blow sharply enough about the middle of it. 
I did not wonder at the American, whom we met in the Strait 
of Magalhaens, saying that he saw ‘marks of a very large 
establishment ;’ for the head of this cove appeared to have been 
colonized by the Chanticleer, so many remains of wooden roads 
and wooden houses were visible every where. 
“ 23d—24th. Bad weather. I was waiting anxiously for an 
opportunity of getting a true bearing of Diego Ramirez, from 
the top of Kater Peak, or Cape Spencer, to cross the bearings 
obtained from Henderson Island. 
* 25th. I went up to the summit of the Peak, but found so 
thick a haze, that no distant object could be seen. Leaving 
the instruments at the top, after taking a few angles, and obser- 
vations of the sun for true bearings, I descended, and after- 
wards examined St. Bernard Cove, which appeared to be a 
good harbour. By comparing the old charts with this place 
and Nassau Bay, I became convinced that there had been a 
great mistake, and that the Bay of Nassau is, or rather was, 
the bay of St. Francis; and that the plan given in the Admi- 
ralty charts is a very fair sketch of its west side, from False 
Cape to Packsaddle Island; but the bottom and east side of 
the bay are evidently put in at random, and would have been 
better left out to give place to the words, ‘ Land was seen in 
this direction. Neither in shape, bearings, distance, or 
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