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[line] Tuesday July 23, 1867 [line]
Get into the mouth of the cut off about 3 A M; having made very fast time. Sail with a strong but puffy wind & a good current in our favor. Pay the Indian and send him back. Take tea at 4 A M & push on past the mouths of two cut offs to the sea & three small rivers; Pass several Indian houses all empty, the Inhabitants being off, fishing. Reach [Ananas barrabora?] about noon. Try one of the five channels & find it a river & turn back & try another whose strong current leads us to regard it as the main channel through it raises my suspicions as running south. Take tea & see the Pastolic hills. Pull against wind till 4 P.M. when the water turns clear & the current changes having evidently been caused by the tide. Put back to try it again. Strike the right