I was obliged to-day to trice one of them up for a little insolent behaviour.
_Saturday, January 3d_ .-- A gale opened after all from the S.E., which I had hoped to escape, so rare is it to have blows from this quarter at this season of the year.

We have veered to forty-five fathoms on each chain, and are in six fathoms water astern (there being nine where the anchors are), and are tailing directly on the surf, with a few hundred feet only between us and it, which of course makes me feel a little solicitude.

We are open to the S.E.
winds, though these blow over the bank from landwards.

Still the water is deep and the land distant, and a considerable sea comes in.

I have ordered the fires to be lighted under another boiler to guard against accidents.