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SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL 
1830. After all our defects were repaired, and we 
June 12. we re otherwise quite ready for sea, we were 
detained nearly a month before our crew was 
14 completed ; and it was not until the 14th of June 
that we left Port Jackson. 
For a day or two previous to our departure 
the weather had been very unsettled; and, when 
we sailed, there was every appearance of an ap- 
proaching gale of wind: we had, however, been 
detained so long in collecting a crew, that I was 
glad to sail the moment we were ready: be- 
sides, I hoped to get to the northward before the 
threatening storm commenced. Unfortunately, 
however, we had no sooner put to sea than it 
set in; and, by the time we were abreast of 
Smoky Cape, the wind, after flying about, fixed 
itself in the eastern board, and blew extremely 
hard, with thick weather and heavy rain. The 
gale lasted with little intermission during the 
20 - 22 . 20th and 21 st; and at four o’clock the next morn- 
ing we had the misfortune to lose our bowsprit 
by the vessel’s plunging into a head sea. We 
had, however, made a sufficient offing to enable 
us to keep away two points, so that, by rigging 
the wreck of the bowsprit, which was barely long 
enough to spread the storm jib, we contrived to 
steer a course we had every reason to think would 
carry her clear of Port Stevens. We continued 
