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TRAVELS THROUGH LOWER GAN ABA 
would be seen to rise or fall, if impelled evert 
in the same direction, whether up or down the 
bay, more or less forcibly at one time of the 
day than at another. Now it is very seldom 
that the wind, at any part of the day or night, 
would be found to blow precisely with the 
same force, for a given space of two hours, that 
it had blown for the preceding space of two 
hours ; an appearance like a tide must there¬ 
fore be seen almost constantly at the head of 
this bay whenever there was a breeze. I could 
not learn that the fluctuation had ever been 
observed during a perfect calm: were the wa¬ 
ters, however, influenced by a regular tide, 
during a cahn the tide would be most readily 
seem 
To return to the voyage. A few hours after 
w e quitted Kingston, on the Till of September, 
the wind died away, and during the whole 
night the vessel made but little way; early on 
the morning of the 8th, however, a fresh 
breeze sprang up, and before noon we lost sight 
of the land. Our voyage now differed in no 
wise from one across the ocean; the vessel was 
steered by the compass, the log regularly heav¬ 
ed, the way marked down in the logbook, and 
an exact account kept of the procedures on 
board. We continued sailing, out of sight of 
land, until the evening of the 9th, when we 
'had a view of the blue hills in the neighbour * 
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