TWO DEATHS^AGO, MAETiif. 



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partially rallied, but two days previous to hm death he 

 seiit to take leave of me, and I \\m some time 

 endeavouring to cheer him up. The sick were suspended 

 in cots on both sides of the main-deck ; and, -when any 

 <leath occurrc^i, it was dilEcuIt to hide from the others 

 Avhat had taken place. Jago was the last of the barge's 

 crew ^vho was taken ill, and had attended most of his 

 companions throiigli their attacks of fever : there was a 

 happy expression of countenance, and a generosity 

 about this poor fellow, that had endeared him to 

 both officers and men. He left me the address of his 

 mother, and of a young girl to whom he was 

 betrothed- 



On the 15th, we weighed as soon as the sun was 

 liigh etiough to show us the dangers, and stood 

 under easy sail to the eastward with the tender sounding 

 a-head. 



After some little difficulty in ivinding the ship through 

 the shoalSj and an occasional scrape on some projecting 

 point of coral, that had outgrown the bed to whit;li it 

 belonged, we made Cagayan Soloo on the 18th ; and 

 before coming to an anchor on the eastern side, wc 

 buried a young Marine, George J^fartin, 



Dollars not being a current medium of exchange among 

 most of these islands, glass beads, looking-glasses, coloured 

 cottons, &c., had been brought by us for purposes of 

 barter ; aaid, as we were very anxious to obtain a supply 

 of bullocks to keep our men in general, as well as the 



