BIMBIAN MUSIC. 
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The subjoined is a common and very favourite 
air ; — 
Our position outside the Bimbia Strait was in four 
fathoms, with the outer point N.W. about half a 
mile. Inside we anchored in two and a half fathoms 
at low water, with the King’s White blouse W. |- S., 
and the south point of Bimbia Island S. 5 E. We 
were, however, rather too near a shoal to the east- 
ward of us on which the surf breaks at half tide. A 
cable’s length more to the N.E. would be a more 
sheltered berth. It is high water here at full and 
change at 8-54 p.m., the rise and fall six and a half 
feet. 
Lieutenant Sidney, the Assistant-Surveyor, made a 
little examination of the strait, and we searched for a 
rock said to lie south of Bimbia Point, but without 
success. 
The current between Fernando Po and the mainland 
is sometimes rapid, but on anchoring ’mid channel, to 
try it during the night, we found it almost imper- 
ceptible : it is stronger on both shores. 
On the 24th of May we returned in the ‘ Wilberforce’ 
