rOYAOE FROM WAIGIQU, 



cHAriER xxxvn. 



VOYAGE FEOM WAIOTOU TO TERNATE. 

 (SEPTEMBER 29 TO XOVKMBBR 5, 1860.) 



I HAD left the old pilot at Wain^ioii to take care of my 

 house and to get tlie pmu into sailing oitler — ^to canlk 

 her bottom, and to look after the upper works, thateli, 

 and rigging. When I retunu'd I found it nearly read>% 

 and immediately began packing np and preparing for thii 

 voyage. Our mainsail liad formed one side of our lu>use, 

 but the spanker an<l jib had been put away in the roof, 

 and on opening them to see if any repairs were wanted, 

 to our horror we found that some rats had made them 

 their neat, and had gnawed tlironi,di them in twenty places. 

 We had therefore to buy matting and make new sails, 

 and tliis delayed us till the 29 th of September, when 

 we at length left Waigiou. 



It took us four days before we could get clear of the 

 land, ha\'ing to pass along narrow straits beset with 

 reefs and shoals, and full of strong cuiTents, so that an 

 unfavourable wind stopped us altogether. One day, when 

 nearly clear, a contrary tide and head wind tlrovo us ten 

 miles back to our anchorage of the night before. This 

 delay made us afraid of running short of water if we 

 should be becalmed at sea, and we tiierefore determined, 

 if possible, to touch at the island where our men had 

 been lost, and which lay directly in our proper course. 

 Tlie wind wa?, however, as usual, contrary^ being S.S.W. 

 instead of S.S.E., as it shonld have been at this time of the 

 year, and all we could do was to rea*li the islatid of Gagie, 

 where we came to an anchor by moonlight under bare 

 volcanic hills. In the morning we tried to enter a deep 

 bay, at the head of which some Galela fishermen told us 

 there wai? wrater, but a head-wind prevented ns. For the 

 reward of a handkerchief, however, they took us to the 

 place in their boat, and we filled up our jars ami hamboiis. 

 We then went round to their camping-place on the noriti 



