Miss S.turned a little pale, and showed a loss of appetite.

I was a little bit moved, but kept it to myself and ate on.
"As soon as dinner was over, we went out to look at the prospect of affairs.

We were close into the land, and could be put on shore any minute; the captain had sent round a little boat to sound the waters, and the report brought back was of shallow water just ahead of us, but more on the right and left.
"While we stood on deck a small boat passed, and a sailor very gleefully called out the soundings as he threw the lead, 'Eight and a half-nine.' "But we are still high and dry now at two o'clock P.M.They are shaking the steamer, and making efforts to move her.

They say if she gets over this, there is no worse place for her to meet.
"I asked the captain of what the bottom is composed, and he says, 'Of mud, rocks, snags, and everything.' "He is now moving very cautiously, and the boat has an unpleasant tremulous motion.
"March 20.

Latitude about thirty-eight degrees.