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There was seven feet of water thirty feet from her stern, rocks close under 
the bow, and the question was, how in the world did she get ther, and how was she 
to get out again^ As the sun rose, it commenced to blow strong from the eastward, 
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and at 1 P. M. it would be high water. Got a spring from the larboard quater 
and clinched it on the hawser as far ahead as possible; put a purchase on the spring 
and hove it taught* Loosed the jibs and courses; canted her head into a hole of 
deep water to the south with a ledge of rocks in all around; cut all clear and came 
out of that scrape* Now to get out of the pen* Went to the masthead and saw a 
hole in the reef, about 20 fathoms wide, that looked deep. Went through all right, 
with the lead going—ten fathoms—no bottoml 
f, July 24th, made the reefs at Lisiansky Island, and saw a wreck on the reef 
to the S* E* of the island. Game to an anchor, and at 3 P* M* sent off two boats 
for the sand spit, about two miles off. On the west side found a stud.dingsail 
boom; rigged as a flag-pole, with signal halyards rove* On the N* E* side found 
the long boat on the beach, having drifted.ashore* She had been rigged for see, 
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and been capsized or stove on the rocks. She had a canvas deck, a bowsprit, rigged 
the mast with the rigging had been cut clear of the boat. She was bedly stove. 
On the south end of the island found the place where the crew had landed. There 
was found her quarter boat, with a roast and remains of a sail, moored to two water 
casks, half full of fresh water, and a grapnell off shore. She was a wreck, being 
badly stove. On the sand beach were the remains of clothing, some earpenter& 
tools, a box of bread, a box of Jenny Lind cakes, and three of soda cracker^, all 
wet with rain w^ter; a tin chart case, empty; some tins of pine apples, put up in 
New York; the poles that had been used for a tent, a topmast studdingsail, made up* 
The wreck was about fotir miles off, and it ms too late for the boats to get to her 
that day, and as the weather looked threatening, we were compelled to go on board* 
There was the appearance of a flag at half mast on on© of the masts that were stand¬ 
ing and a boat f s crew volunterred to make the attempt to board her that night, which 
however was not donw* The next morning at 7 o 1 clock, stated for the wreck, Mr* 
Andrew J Cahill in charge of the boat, the wind blowing hard in squalls, with heavy 
