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vessel rounding into the south-east bight of the bay, 
and was obliged to send my overseer on horseback 
a long ride round the bay, to tell the master to send 
us water to the place of our encampment. He had 
been to the island of St. Peter yesterday looking for 
birds’ eggs, and having neglected to take advantage 
of a fair wind, was not now able to get the cutter up 
to us. The water had consequently to be brought in 
the boat a distance of eight miles through a heavy 
sea, and at considerable risk. Mr. Scott, who came 
with the master in the boat, returned on board again 
in the evening. Our stage to-day had been eigh- 
teen miles, and the horses were both tired and 
thirsty. The small supply of water brought us in 
the boat being insufficient for them, we again were 
obliged to watch them at night. 
November 11. — Guided by our friend “ Wil- 
guldy,” we cut off all the corners and bends of the 
coast, and steering straight for “ Beelimah Gaippe,” 
arrived there about noon, after a stage of twelve 
miles ; the road was harder and more open, but 
still in places we had to pass through a very dense 
brush. The water to which the native took us was 
procured by digging about four feet deep, in a 
swamp behind the coast hummocks, which were 
here high and bare, and composed of white sand. 
The water was abundant and good, and the grass 
tolerable, so that I determined to remain a day to 
rest and recruit the horses ; it was so rarely that we 
had the opportunity of procuring both grass and 
