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The Rosalie attempted to repass the Narrows, but the wind and tide were not sufficiently strong in her favour, so she returned and took up her former anchorage. This day we were employed nailing up canvas outside the houses to keep out the wind and rain. Captain Boyse visited us in the evening and Captain Gardiner put into his hand a written request that he would, under our peculiar circumstances, leave a man with us to assist us and help to protect the stores, we not knowing what number of Lagoon Indians there might be about us and no Patagonians having as yet come. To this request Captain Boyse did not accede as he had but very few men and a rough passage round the Horn before him, but remarked if we did not feel ourselves safe, his vessel was at our service to convey our persons away. Of course, this was not what we wanted.