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board at noon^ and attended to according to my 

 instructions. Carron's legs were dreadfully swollen, 

 about three times their natural size, from oedema. 

 In the afternoon both reviving and thanking God 

 for their deliverance. I was for some time afraid 

 of Carron. At ten p.m. — they are both doing well, 

 and, I trust, will be enabled to tell their own tale, 

 which renders it unnecessary for me to write it 

 down here. I told the Captain to proceed direct on 

 to Sydney. Jackey, Carron, and Goddard, and the 

 Captain, stating it would be running too great a 

 risk to go to recover anything from the tent, 

 moreover, with so small a party as the Captain, 

 Jackey, and myself, (Barrett really being unfit to 

 go), and the sailors all refusing to go. I consider 

 the Captain deserves considerable credit for his 

 actions throughout in exerting himself to rescue the 

 survivors. 



Dec. dlst. — At daylight got under weigh and 

 took our departure from WejTnouth Ba}' for Sydney. 

 Carron and Goddard were some considerable time in 

 getting better ; the former being subject to daily 

 fits of ague, &c. &c. 



Jan. 11th, 1849. — The black native had made his 

 escape during the night, whilst it was raining and 

 blowing hard ; we were at this time anchored about 

 one and a-half or two miles from Turtle Beef, and a 

 distance of eight miles from Cape Bedford, the 

 nearest part of the mainland; made search on the 

 reef, but saw no marks of him ; a strong current was 



