OUR LAST SUPPLY OF COAL AND PROVISIONS. 269 
very fair specimen of the manner in whicli we were often 
exposed during that surveying ci’uise around the woidd.” 
We were now to remain about Ila-ko-da-di from fifteen 
to twenty days, taking in coal and salt provisions from the 
Hamburg brig Greta, which we had chartered at Houg- 
Kong to meet us at this point, and surveying the harbour 
and Straits of T’ Sugar, (erroneously pronounced Sangar,) 
after which we were to separate to meet no more until 
our arrival at San Francisco. 
