on account of the anxiety due [98] to the additional delay and the precarious condition in which our breakdown placed us. We were only thankful that the calm weather had enabled us to reach a safe an- chorage that night, for a strong northeasterly gale broke upon us about [14]o'clock in the morning and raged for more than twenty- four hours. The thrashing of c[and a]nd c[a]sing [of our anchor] the boat aroused us from the deep into which we had fallen after plumber produced by the labors of the long day. Henderson discovered the seat of trouble with the engine and remedied it, but the wind was too strong to permit our round- ing Cape Alexander and proceed to Etah, now only twenty-five miles distant, hence he an[d