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RECOVER THE BAGGAGE. 
water. By steady perseverance, we gained the 
place where our little keg had been buried ; 
and having refreshed ourselves with a little tea, 
again pushed on for a few miles to a place where 
I had appointed the overseer to send a native to 
meet us with water. He was already there, and we 
all encamped together for the night, soon forgetting, 
in refreshing sleep, the fatigues and labours of the 
da y- 
The 13th was a dark cloudy day, with light rains 
in the morning. About noon we arrived at the 
camp, after having walked seventy-six miles in 
the last three days and a half, during great part of 
which, we had carried heavy weights. We had, 
however, successfully accomplished the object for 
which we had gone, and had now anxieties only for 
our future progress, the provisions and other stores 
being all safely recovered. 
During my absence, I had requested the overseer 
to bake some bread, in order that it might be tolerably 
stale before we used it. To my regret and annoy- 
ance, I found that he had baked one third of our 
whole supply, so that it would be necessary to use 
more than our stated allowance, or else to let it 
spoil. It was the more vexing, to think that in this 
case the provisions had been so improvidently ex- 
pended, from the fact of our having plenty of the 
sting-ray fish, and not requiring so much bread. 
April 14. — Early this morning I sent the over- 
seer, and one of the native boys, with three days’ 
