MEANDER ON A REEF. 



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Tveighty materials. The next morning, at lialf-past seven, 

 the ship floated. The only way tliat I know of, to enable 

 a man — especially if lie be the Captaiii— ftilly to appre- 

 ciate the agreeable sensation that I experienced on fecUnp^ 

 the ship once more alive, and moving back into deep 

 water, is to let him 6rst get into a similar to that from 

 which tlie Af^ander hud jmt escaped. By breakfast-tune 

 the foUowing morning we were runmng, with all sail set, 

 for Balambangan ; and, if the rusty appearance of the 

 muiizles of tlie gxnis had not told tales, no one %vho might 

 have met us could have seen tliat anything had happened. 



Before the pinnace had lost sight of the ship, the tide 

 had fallen to its lowest ; and the huge hull appearing on 

 the horizon had looked so perfectly helpless, and its 

 position so unlike what they ever expected to see her in 

 agatDj that the crew of the pinnace gave a despDudiiig 

 account of her on their arrival at Lahuau. 



The next day in Kiinanis Bay we met the ILEJ.C* 

 Bteam-frigate Semirmms^ Commander Daniollj coming 

 to our assistance. The crew manned the rigging, and 

 congratulated us on our escape by three hearty cheers. 



23rd, — Came to, off the Coal Point, Lahuan. Coal had 

 become so scarce at Si neap ore, that the Commander-in- 

 Chief had sent to borrow some from the Dutch Govern- 

 ment at Batcivia. All the surface of the fine coal seam 

 had been picked off by tlie person who had contracted, 

 before the charter was granted to the E. Archipelago 

 Company, to supply our steamers with coal : and that part 



