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an tlie following night, according to the diai% we ought* 

 in tlio course we were takingj to have passed between the 

 Crozet Islands, but we saw them not. 



Oti the 13th May we entered the Straits of Sunda, 

 forty-seven days from Eio. 



Having made an equally quick passage mx years pre- 

 viously in the Dido, beating five racu-of-war who kept 

 the old track by St Paul's and Amsterdam, I can safely 

 recommend tlie one by which we sailed as the most 

 expeditious, though perhaps not the most agreeable route; 

 we had much cold and unpleasant weather, with the 

 thermometer frequently below 40 deg. On comparing 

 the track of the IMdo with tliat of the Mcmmhr for the 

 la^t 7000 miles, I find that the distfuices between the 

 position of the two ships at noon on each day never 

 exceeded 100 miles. 



On the 27th April, John Wallis, a fine young man, 

 twenty-four years of ago* fell overboard from the main- 

 topsail yard : the ship was running fast through the water, 

 and the sliip's company at breakrast. While lowering the 

 quarter-boats to succour him, Lieutenant Comber, ever 

 foremost in any such casOj fell over the stem of the 

 second cutter : tho sea had closed over poor Wallis 

 before a boat could reacli him, and Comber was with 

 difficulty picked up in an exhausted state. While he was 

 in the water^ we observed several huge specimens of the 

 albatross pass over him, and so close that he felt the tips 

 of their wings sweep his face. Felicia llemans must have 



