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the sad spectacle was concealed from our view by 
a dense fog at four or five o’clock in the afternoon, 
when with a fairer breeze we steered back for 
Reikevig, the Orion not affording accommodation 
for so many people as were now on board, nor 
being furnished with provisions enough for a voy¬ 
age to England. It had been whispered among 
our crew previously to their leaving the Margaret 
and Anne, that some of the Danes had probably 
set fire to the vessel, and this suspicion was now 
confirmed even by their own confessions. Two of 
them, therefore, who were most strongly sus¬ 
pected, were put in irons, and the beds, &c., of 
those belonging to the Orion searched for any 
combustible matter by which a similar act of 
villainy might here be committed. The result 
of this search was, that a large piece of touch- 
wood was found concealed under one of their 
hammocks, and it was ascertained that it was 
with some of the same substance that one or two 
of the Danes in the Margaret and Anne, went 
down the fore-hatchway at about ten o’clock on 
the Saturday night, and set fire to the wool, 
which, owing to its slow mode of burning, was 
not discovered till the following morning. In 
the Orion, which was now on many accounts so 
uncomfortable, we passed but two nights; for, 
Tuesday, on the Tuesday morning we came to an- 
August 29. j n Reikevig Ray, where we landed 
