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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1818. Excerpt:... NARRATIVE, c. CHAPTER I. Th E provisions and stores for the expedition having been all shipped on board the Congo, and the Dorothy transport, and the river being free from the ice, which had blocked it up for many days, the two vessels quitted Deptford on the 16th of February, and proceeded to the Nore, where the Congo's crew received six months wages in advance; and on the following morning (25th) we weighed and anchored the same evening in the Downs, where we were detained until the 28th by strong westerly winds. On that day, the wind being at N. N. W., we put to sea, but reluming to S. W. when abreast of Plymouth, we were obliged to run into the Sound, where we lay for three days, perfectly sheltered by the Breakwater from the violence of a S.W. gale. Here we completed the Congo's complement, by receiving two marines, and entering two seamen, in lieu of as many who had deserted at Sheerness the same evening on which they received their advance. On the 5th of March, the wind moderating, though still at S.W., we put to sea in the hope of being able to beat down the Channel; but the return of strong gales forced us into Falmouth on the 6th, from whence we again sailed on the 9th, with a fine breeze at N. N.E.; this, however, failed us on reaching the length of Scilly, and was succeeded by a heavy gale from S.W., with extremely thick and dirty weather, such as, at this season, renders the navigation of the English channel equally disagreeable and dangerous, and which now, by preventing our getting a pilot for Scilly, obliged us to run back to Falmouth. In standing in for Scilly, we passed the Bishop and Clerk's rocks at the distance of a mile, the sea breaking on them in a frightful manner; we also passed close to the Wolf rock, on which the sea also brok...