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Captain Gardiner had not returned and Captain Boyse told me of his determination not to stay beyond early on Thursday morning. I therefore wrote a protest against his leaving before Captain Gardiner's return, which I intended to put into Captain Boyse's hand if I had not succeeded in persuading him to stay longer, but to this he consented and had hardly made up his mind to do so before Captain Gardiner made his appearance, about 8 o'clock on Wednesday evening. He had gone within sight of what he believed to be the fires of the Patagonians, but his companions refused to go any further in this direction: the journey was therefore without any immediate result.