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eddies, that the vessel tossed about violently. 
We weighed again therefore at eleven, and 
dropped down to Sarwa, where we continued 
for the night well sheltered. 
Sept. 12 .— Early yesterday morning we tried 
again to pass the elbow of the river where 
the current was so rapid, and, after struggling 
against the stream for four hours, succeeded at 
last, with the assistance of a light breeze. The 
steam-vessel’s rate of going was six miles an 
hour ; so that the rapidity of the current must 
have been at least equal to this. In passing the 
same spot in the steam-vessel last year, Sir A. 
Campbell was detained four-and-twenty hours, 
and got ihrough the difficulty at last only by 
towing the vessel. From quitting Rangoon, 
until the 8th, we had clear sultry weather and 
calms. On that day we had a return of the 
monsoon, with rain and southerly winds, and 
now ascended the river with a strong breeze 
in our favour. The thermometer, with this 
change in the weather, fell to eighty degrees in 
the daytime. This forenoon we passed two 
war-boats, with a number of baggage-boats. 
We communicated with them, and found that 
they conveyed a second Rewun, for Rangoon, 
with his wife and family. 
In the afternoon, we stopped for a couple of 
