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Herbarium at Kew, but which I have not as yet had the 

 requisite leisure carefully to examine. 



We left our anchorage in Gregory Bay at eleven a.m. that 

 day, and passed through the first IN'arrows, anchoring off 

 Direction Hill about four p.m. Thereafter several of the 

 boats were despatched for some hours to take lines of sound- 

 ings, and a considerable amount of work was thus accom- 

 plished. We were rather surprised to observe from our 

 station a large ship flying the Japanese flag lying off Cape 

 Possession, and next morning we went over to her to learn 

 what she was doing, and found that she was the ex-Confederate 

 ram " Stonewall," sold some time previously to the Japanese 

 government, and on her way out to Japan, under the charge 

 of a U.S. captain, being at the present time occupied in sup- 

 plying a merchant ship, the ''Mary C. Dyer," from Monte 

 Video, with coal. She brought us some letters and papers 

 from the flagship then lying off Monte Video, and engaged 

 to take on the correspondence which we had left behind us 

 at Sandy Point. 



