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but from the same cause as yesterday, made no progress when the wind
fell, as tracking was impossible. The river fell ten inches to-day.
Uh August. —Lashed the flat astern, but it is more difficult to steer
steady. The flat sheers off the vessel’s quarters on either side. The vessels
steamed ahead easily to a bend of the river, off the point of which the
cross current made the Meanee sheer broad off. The flat s helm was
instantly put over, but the vessels came together head and stern, and
the towing beam was broken : having a spare one, fitted it and tried all
day to take the vessels on, but after repeatedly grounding and carrying
out anchors for ten hours, secured the vessels five hundred yards below
the place we started from in the morning,—the flat being injured by the
bumpkin of the Meanee, and the Meanee more slightly damaged by the
stern of the Ravee. The vessels astern of each other will not steer in six
feet of water when going full power with a strong current, and would not
go ahead in the centre of the stream.
5th August. —Secured the flat alongside the steamer, and steered
close along the bank: with hawsers on shore warping ahead, made half
a mile. Sent for boats to lighten the flat.
§th August. —Put into boats half the flat’s lading, as the 15th of this
month is the date mentioned in my orders as the latest date to quit Fe-
rozepoor for the vessels’ speedy return. Towards evening secured to the
right bank, four hundred yards below the place started from The steamer
has not power to take up the flat against the current with only eight
hundred maunds weight on board.
August. —Started at 11.15, being detained for fuel; but not making
any headway, out hawsers and warped ahead for three hours, and then
went steadily on, gaining three miles during the day. The agents of the
Nawab An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India. of Moultan evinced the utmost readiness in attending to all our
demands, and payment was made in proportion to services performed.
This was a part of the river that had two shoal banks, where tracking
was for some distance at this season impossible.
August. —With a strong S. W. wind made four miles by steam,
and then was obliged to track for four hours after receiving more fuel:
could make no way without lines on shore.
Qth August. —We have been seven days coming fourteen miles. It 1S
now evident that the instructions cannot be carried out in respect to
quitting Ferozepoor on or before the 15th of this month, and it remains
an important question what ought to be done. My orders are explicit to
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