Jan. 1827. 



ARRIVE AT PORT FAMINE. 



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spongy moss, the vivid green colour of which produces, from 

 a distance, an appearance of most luxuriant pasture land. Sir 

 John Narborough noticed, and thus describes them : " The 

 wood shows in many places as if there were plantations : for 

 there were several clear places in the woods, and grass growing 

 like fenced fields in England, the woods being so even by the 

 sides of it.**"** 



The wind, after leaving Freshwater Bay, increased, with 

 strong squalls from the S.W., at times blowing so hard as to 

 lay the ship almost on her broadside. It was, however, so much 

 in our favour, that we reached the entrance of Port Famine 

 early, and after some little detention from baffling winds, which 

 always render the approach to that bay somewhat difficult, the 

 ships anchored in the harbour. 



* Narborough, G7. 



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