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in addition to the party we brought out with 
Count Tramp, who was to go to England as a 
prisoner of war, his secretary, and Lieutenant 
Stewart of the Talbot, charged with dispatches 
from Captain Jones to the Admiralty. The 
Danish prisioners belonging to our prize were 
divided in the two vessels, and Mr. Jorgensen, 
together with a few English, sufficient to protect 
the ship, embarked'on board the Orion. At 
about four o’clock in the afternoon we were both 
under sail, but with so little wind that it was 
evening before we were quite clear of the small 
islands of Akaroe and Ingle, and the same wea- 
Saturday, ^ er continued till noon of the next day, 
August26. w h en a breeze springing up we soon 
bade farewell to the Orion, which we now left 
far behind, observing to each other as she faded 
from our sight that we should never see her again; 
and, finding we were not near enough to the land 
to go through the most usual and the safest, as 
well as the shortest, passage between Cape Rei- 
kanes and the first of the rocks called the Fugle 
Skiers, we made our course between the second 
and third of them. I believe not one of our little 
party left Iceland with feelings of regret; the 
weather, which had at the best been unfavorable, 
was now daily growing worse, and not only ren¬ 
dered our longer abode in the island disagreeable, 
but threatened us with a dangerous passage home- 
