VOYAGE TO TltE


oit a moment's truce with the flies. The
wind still blowing from the exact quarter
to which our course must be shaped. My
stock of patience being quite exhaust-
ed, I was about having recourse to phi-
losophy, but, happily there was not
any occasion for it, as at the moment the
breeze became somewhat more kind, and
we were about putting to sea: again arose
a difficulty-our vessel fast aground-now
she was off, and then the wind again was
foul.
 Friday, 18th.-About the middle of
 lasttiight, the horse I had received at a
 present from General Robinson, disliking
 his situation certainly more than I did
 mine, bad as I found it, jumped over-
 board. With much difficulty we got him
 in again, and to prevent any further des-
 perate attempts of the kind, secured him
 with- strong ropes. One of my Indian
 friends of Crata, learning our deten-
 ti6on kindly sent the hilf of a fimn bog.