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Our voyage home was favourable, but the vessel was deeply laden and very wet fore and aft, and so leaky that the pumps were going during a very considerable part of each watch throughout the whole voyage.

On Sunday night June 15th we made the Cove of Cork to which the skill of the Captain, Mr J. Gibson had conducted us exactly, although we had seen no land between Cape Virgins, Patagonia and Cape Clear, Ireland. As the vessel was a slow sailor and we had been overtaken north of the Line by the Glenswilly, Captain Gardiner determined to go on by her, in order if possible, to prevent the Committee engaging anyone to go to Cape Gregory in consequence of our application for aid. The two vessels were in sight of each other for three days and as Captain Gardiner was obliged to go on to Scotland in the Glenswilly, I might have been in London almost as soon as he but we were detained at Cove day after day for nearly a week, during which time I had an opportunity of seeing Cork, Blarney etc. Having heard that Miss Isaac Wilson of Kendal was in Cork, I waited upon her in the hope of hearing news of Kendal friends, but did not get much information.