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cniise would be rendered shorter by a year than had been ori- 

 ginally anticipated by us. After a few days' sojourn at Sandy 

 Point, in the course of which we repeated some of our familiar 

 rambles for the last time, everything being at length in readi- 

 ness for the northerly voyage, we bid farewell to the settle- 

 ment on the afternoon of the 27th, moving on as far as Laredo 

 Bay. On the 28th we continued our course, anchoring in the 

 evening in St. Jago Bay. The day was cold and bleak, with 

 heavy showers throughout the morning, but the weather im- 

 proved towards the afternoon, in the course of which there 

 was a magnificent double rainbow, with both arches complete, 

 and dipping into the water, and the inner of the two possessed 

 of a supplementary ring of rose colour. There was a brilliant 

 sunset, succeeded by a beautiful clear moonlight night. On 

 the 29th we weighed between four and five a.m., and on the 

 afternoon of the same day, with a bright sun overhead, we 

 passed out of the Strait for the last time, and some hours 

 later Cape Virgins disappeared from our gaze. 



