I worked all day now, salving and boating off a cargo to the sloop.

The bulk of the goods was tallow in casks and in lumps from which the casks had broken away; and embedded in the seaweed was a barrel of wine, which I also towed alongside.

I hoisted them all in with the throat-halyards, which I took to the windlass.
The weight of some of the casks was a little over eight hundred pounds.
[Illustration: Salving wreckage.] There were no Indians about Langara; evidently there had not been any since the great gale which had washed the wreckage on shore.

Probably it was the same gale that drove the _Spray_ off Cape Horn, from March 3 to 8.

Hundreds of tons of kelp had been torn from beds in deep water and rolled up into ridges on the beach.