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it for about five hours. At the end of which time it 
seemed better to haul it up as we had taken nothing but 
a medusa and a slaty stone. 
We found the boat sailed very fairly well a point off 
the wind, and this day we had used the screw very 
little, just keeping the fires banked against any sudden 
call. 
At eight o'clock on this evening we came to our anchor 
in 42 fathoms of water, with 24 fathoms of our port cable 
out. We were now just off the Sauchika river, as we 
judged by a dead reckoning. That is to say, we were 
lying about a mile from the coast, about sixteen miles to 
the north of parallel 69°. 
Powys and I soon felt like clean run salmon, for getting 
all the lumber out of the bath-room we had a bath for 
the first time since leaving England. One of the draw- 
backs to the extreme activity of the yacht Saxoz was, 
that even in an ordinary quiet swell the bath, when 
filled, would respond at once by emptying itself all over 
the floor. We had therefore made it into a store place 
for bottles and many other things. 
An hour later we went ashore in the small boat. We 
landed and got off again not without considerable diff- 
culty, because of the surf and the steepness of the beach. 
Powys walked inland with the mate for sporting purposes. 
I was alone, except for old Sailor the spaniel, and wanted 
to inquire more carefully into this approach. 
I found that there was no river at all. It is quite true 
