ARRIVAL OF THE WATERWITCH. 53 
siderable body of water inland, but we hoped and 
expected that a few days would perhaps give us a 
clue to the object of their flight. 
Sunday , July 5. — A day of rest to all. In the 
afternoon I employed myself in writing out instruc- 
tions for the overseer during my absence, as also for 
the master of the Water witch, for whose arrival we 
now kept a constant and anxious look out. In the 
evening about eight o'clock the sentinel on the hill 
reported a fire on the opposite side of Spencer’s 
gulf. Upon receiving this intelligence I had blue 
lights exhibited, and rockets fired, which in a little 
time were replied to by rockets from the gulf and 
the lighting up of a second fire on shore assuring 
me at once of the safe arrival of the cutter. 
