A PROJECT ABANDONED, 
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able. We must go by land to Paso, a march of 
fourteen miles. It would be much easier to go 
by sea, were the currents not dangerous owing 
to the state of the monsoon. We thought this 
was a shifting excuse, until we made an attempt 
to go to the island of Haruka, on the opposite 
side of the bay, when we had a narrow escape 
from being swamped. A strong breeze sud- 
denly sprang up, and when we got out into the 
open sea, our boat seemed a very plaything on 
the high weaves which were running, and the 
men declared that it would become unmanage- 
able if we persisted in crossing. After the boat 
had twice been all but capsized, we had to 
abandon our project and return. 
