In this fearful position her anchors began to drag, and her destruction ap- peared inevitable, when her commander, Captain Martin, determined on attempting to take her over the reef, it being high-water at the time.

He accord- ingly cut his cable, set his sails, and ran his vessel on the rocks Four times she struck, and was heaved as often over them, until at length she floated in the deeper water of Victor harbour, and found her safety under the lee of the very danger from which she had expected destruction.

At the eastern extremity of Encounter bay tin- junction of the Murray with the Southern (.

V;m takes place in 35 3 hit.

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