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On Jan. 8th, 1826, we expected to 
make one of the Sandwich Islands, cal¬ 
led BinPs Island, but night came on be¬ 
fore we discovered it. But early on the 
following morning, we saw land about 
four leagues to the leeward, and bore 
down to the island for the purpose of 
sending a boat ashore, to kill seals.— 
We arrived near the landing place, 
hove to, and the captain with six men 
went ashore in the whale boat. We 
now stood off from the shore for about 
an hour, then tacked and stood in, for 
the boat to come off. The wind had 
increased to almost a gale, and continu¬ 
ing to blow harder, when we were with¬ 
in a quarter of a mile of the Island, not 
discovering any thing of the boat, we 
veered off again, and continued tacking 
till night came on, but saw nothing of 
the boat or her crew. About 0 or 10 
o’clock, the wind abated, and we found 
ourselves two leagues to the leeward of 
the Island, where we lay to all night un, 
der easy sail, anxiously waiting for the 
approach of morning, in hopes then to 
