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and the best bower anchor and chain were laid out 
astern, with a hedge on the larboard quarter, and two 
lengths of hawser to the rocks from the starboard 
bow. After several unavailing attempts bj the various 
purchases, together with the reversed action of the 
engines, finding it impossible to move the vessel, she 
was made secure for the night. During the greater 
part of the following day, (the 13th) every exertion 
was made by altering the stowage, heaving on the 
purchase and using the engines, to get out of this 
critical position, but without success. It was then 
determined to send Mr. Waddington, the acting boat- 
swain, to the Confluence, in charge of a boat, to clear 
out the ‘Amelia’ tender and drop her down the stream 
if possible, to take on board the stores and provisions 
and thus lighten tlie ‘ Wilberforce.’ 
Late in the evening, eight men belonging to the 
‘Amelia,’ came down in a largo galley attached to the 
settlement, which Waddington had sent olF on reaching 
there, while he and his party remained busily engaged 
in preparing the schooner, in which he contrived to be 
back to the steam-vessel on the evening of the 14th. 
The difficulties which he met with, not only from the 
intricacy of the navigation for sixteen miles among 
rocks and sandbanks, but the mutinous disposition of 
some of the crew, rendered it a work of no ordinary 
care to fulfil as he had done, and well bestowed were the 
high eulogiums passed on him by his commanding oflTicer 
On the 15th, the ‘Amelia’ was brought alongside, and 
