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we found blue water where all the charts located rocks 
and shoals. We found, also, evidences of fraud and 
rascality on the part of ship-masters toward the 
underwriters. In regard to the latter let my journal 
speak: — 
“ Captain Rodgers has just found the wreck of the 
‘Memnon,' lying off* the northwest point of Pulo Leat, 
(Leat Island.) When the -water is smooth and polished, 
you can look down from a boat and see every thing very 
plainly; and, as there was a fine, heavy anchor lying 
under her bow, Bridge hitched on to it with the launch 
and hoisted it up. It is now on board of the Hancock, 
and will probably sell in IIong-Kong for two .or three 
hundred dollars : quite a healthy sum to be divided among 
sixty men the first time they go on shore. 
“ The captain of this vessel reported, when she was 
lost, that he ‘ had struck on a rock that was some miles 
from any land and put down on no chart:’ hence, the 
underwriters paid the loss. Had they known that an 
ignorant or careless man had run his ship upon a rock 
within pistol-shot of a large island during broad daylight, 
they would have saved their money. Of course, we will 
hunt no more for the ^ Memnon Rock,’ — the hidden 
danger on which the ship was said to have struck.” 
During the survey we made several discoveries similar 
to this. We erased from the chart all such imaginary 
dangers, dotted it with others which really existed and 
which had previously been unknown, and really accom- 
plished a vast amount of work during the four months 
that we were engaged upon it. Too much credit cannot 
be awai'ded to Commander John Rodgers for the manner 
