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when aground, hanks were formed rapidly between and about them.
Returned to the former anchorage.
1st July .—The river having fallen three inches during the night, tried
to steam past again, without success. After working some hours the usual
squall threatened from the N. Eastward, and the vessels were taken back
to an anchorage.
2nd July .—Put out a fourth of Ravees cargo, and received in Meanee
eight or nine hours’ fuel only. The river had fallen during the night four
inches. For two hours and a half made no progress under steam, so had
recourse to tracking, and in three hours having tracked and steamed two
thousand yards (without the formerly recurring accidents of swerving off
from the bank with the vessels’ head down stream) went on by steam
alone easily to Muluk, over a current of four knots. Lightening the flat
seemed of very little use: the vessels did not certainly perform better un
der steam only, and nothing but unremitting attention to the helm, when
warping and steaming up, carried the vessels past this strong part of
the river’s course. I estimated the breadth here at five hundred yards,
having an average depth of tw T elve feet. Fuel jungle on right bank. Had
the vessels answered their helm when in five or six feet of w T ater, we could
have come past easily the first day. They both draw less than three
feet, and yet, from some cause, are quite unmanageable in a depth of five
or six feet of water. The merchandize was taken on board again. The
Mullukwallee wood station is at a bank of old formation, at the en
trance of the Jumallee creek, and a good position.
3rd July .—Entered the Jumallee creek at the embouchure. The
depth is four feet, width one hundred yards. Several fisheries stretched
across. Proceeded up against a two knot current, but at 11.10, owing
to the vessels not answering their helms, grounded badly at the junction
of another creek with the Jumallee: were detained in heaving off two
hours and twenty-five minutes, and proceeded. Had light rain and
wind from the N.E. in the evening.
July. —Proceeded. The creek very winding: current one to two
miles an hour. Shoaled suddenly from five to two feet, and grounded on
a clay-knoll in a narrow part of the creek: were detained by grounding
three hours fifty minutes; and fuel being expended, wrnited for the
chuprassee who had been sent to the next station to come down. Sent up
and down to near villages for fuel: were detained eight hours and ten
minutes for fuel this day.
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