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BRIG tuEDERER. 
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By the politeness of Capt. E. Wood, - to are enabled to give the following 
account of the recent two months* cruise of the Ka me ha me ha V. to the westward, 
including the finding of the wreck of the German brig Wanderer, lost on Lisiansky 
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shoals in the month of May last: 
!, Sailed from Honolulu June 26th* July 4th at French Frigate Shoals. Saw 
there two large hogs on a sand spit, a quarter of a mile in circumference. They 
have been there since April 1667. There is no fresh water there and very little 
vegetation. As soon as the boat landed, the hogs took to the water and swam off 
to some rocks just awash, and seemed perfectly at home in the water. 
** July 11th, at 3 A. M. struck on a reef not laid down in any chart in my 
possession and 1 have the lates from the surveys of Capt. Brooks, of the schooner 
Fennimore Cooper. The reef lays south of Maro‘s Reef, and is probably the same 
that the Two Brothers was lost on, over fifty years ago. I shall take the liberty 
of naming it Dcrwsett's Reef, after the owner of this brig. Its position (centre) 
is in lat 26° 13 * N, long 170° 38* W. It extends N. W. and S. E. about eight miles 
from lat 25° 08* to 25° 16. The weather side is a steep mil. It runs to a point 
to the N. W. and spreads out to the south about four miles wide, with a narrow strip 
of rocks even with the water. A very dangerous place, and only one of many in a 
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W* N. W. direction from French Frigat* Shoals, to the coast of Japan. I ms steer¬ 
ing W by N at the time, fancying myse] f secure to pass Metro's Reef, twenty miles 
to the south. First saw breakers to leeward. Hauled to the wind, with courses up 
for an emergency. In twenty minutes she touched. Put the helm down and let go 
all halyards and anchored* Gave her 16 fathoms chain when she swung to her anchor 
and fetched up on the rocks* Dark as pitch* Furled all sail and got a spare 
anchor and hawser ready* At daylight took it sixty fathoms ahead and hove her 
afloat* From the masthead, nothin in sight but sunken rocks in all directions* 
