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AT MOUTH OP THE NUN. 
olF Barracoon Point at the month of the Nun. The 
sight of the open sea acted like a charm upon every 
one*. 
Friday, October 16th . — Sent a party of Krumen 
on shore to cut wood. The rigging was set up, 
and other preparations made, for sea. The Krumen 
brought on board five galley loads, and Captain 
Beecroft supplied one canoe load of wood ; in all, 
sufficient for nine days’ consumption. The ‘ Selina,’ 
an English merchant-schooner, now here, has lost 
nearly all hands in this and some of the other rivers. 
Letters were put on board of her, for Lieutenant 
Strange, in case he should arrive here in the ‘ Soudan’ 
after our departure ; and at Captain Trotter’s request 
I wrote a letter of thanks to the Commander of the 
‘Dolphin’ (Lieutenant Littlehales), for his promptitude 
in taking the sick of the squadron sent down the river 
on to Ascension, which was also put on board the 
‘ Selina.’ 
Saturday, October IQth . — At five in the morning 
Captain Beecroft came on board, and as the steam was 
up, we weighed immediately. When just within the 
bar, the ‘ Soudan’ was seen outside. The bar was 
crossed in comparative quiet ; and after an inter- 
change of anxious inquiries with the ‘Soudan,’ the 
The mangroves (Rhizophora) and the other vegetables, with which 
they live constantly in society, perish as the ground dries, and they 
are no longer bathed with salt water. — {Humholdt^s Personal Nar- 
rativey vol, ii. p. 375.) 
