Coles however persisted that these wore so far inland that they could only have come from the flour casks which we had emptied before starting.

I knew they were far too numerous for such to be the case, but I suppressed my opinion and made no remarks.

We next came to a cask of salt provisions, washed high and dry at least twenty feet above the usual high-water mark: the sea had evidently not been near this for a long period as it was half covered with drift sand which must have taken some time to accumulate.

This Coles easily accounted for, it was merely the cask which had been lost from the wreck of the Paul Pry.

I still thought otherwise but said nothing.
At length we reached the spot where the depot had been made: so changed was it that both Mr.Smith and Coles persisted it was not the place; but on going to the shore there were some very remarkable rocks, on the top of which lay a flour cask more than half empty, with the head knocked out, but not otherwise injured; this also was washed up at least twenty feet of perpendicular elevation beyond high water mark.