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A DIARY OF THE 



June 18. — Fine weather, with light variable 

 winds. All hands employed in airing and dry- 

 ing bedding, &c., and as otherwise necessary. 

 A party were despatched to reconnoitre the state 

 of the wreck, which was found much displaced, 

 from the effects of the late gales ; and the flat, 

 on which our camp had stood, showed marks of 

 having been much overflowed. Many Indians 

 were searching round the wreck, and stared hard 

 at our party : they had their horses ready to de- 

 camp. Nothing in sight from our look-out hill. 

 The glories of Waterloo were this day not for- 

 gotten by us, even in this wild and distant spot 5 

 the health of the Duke of Wellington being 

 drank, with cheers, in the oflicers' tent. Our 

 companion, Signor Sylva, the Chilian major of 

 Arauco, had heard of Napoleon and of the 

 Duke of Wellington, and was quite eloquent on 

 this occasion. 



June 19. — Fine morning; wind variable. 

 Mustered \ examined, and took an account of 

 the ship's company's clothing and bedding. The 

 store-tent was this day examined, and an attack 

 made on the mice. A shooting party went out 

 to try the ground on the south bank of the 

 Leubu ) which, about a league from the en- 



