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SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL 
1^1. under our stern, the anchor was dropped, with- 
June 30 . out my ascertaining the quality of the bottom, 
which was afterwards found to be of a very 
questionable nature. 
The Dick, having dropped her anchor within 
forty yards of us, was lying so close as to pre- 
vent our veering more cable than sixty fathoms, 
but as we appeared to ride tolerably easy with 
a sheer to starboard, while the Dick rode on the 
opposite sheer, we remained as we were: to 
prevent accident, the yards were braced so 
that we should cast clear of the Dick if we 
parted, a precaution which was most happily 
taken. 
As soon as the distressing accident that had 
occurred was known on board the Dick, Dr. Arm- 
strong, a surgeon of the navy and a passenger 
in that ship, hastened on board to assist Mr. 
Montgomery in dressing Mr. Roe's hurt, which 
I found, to my inexpressible satisfaction, was not 
so grievous as might have been expected : his 
fall was, most providentially, broken twice; first 
by the spritsail brace, and secondly by some 
planks from the Frederick’s wreck, which had 
fortunately been placed across the forecastle bul- 
wark over the cat-heads: his head struck the 
edge of the plank and broke his fall, but it cut a 
very deep wound over the right temple. This 
