He and Colliver were out upon the fore-yard when Griffiths slipped, and missing the deck, fell clear into the sea.
The captain was below at the time, but rushed upon deck on hearing Colliver's alarm of 'Man overboard!' It was too late, however.
The vessel was making eight knots an hour at the time, and although it was immediately put about, there was not the slightest hope of finding the poor fellow.

Indeed, we never saw him again." [At this point the Journal becomes strangely meagre, consisting almost entirely of disconnected jottings about the weather, while here and there occurs merely a date with the latitude and longitude entered opposite.

Only two entries seem of any importance: one of August 20th, noting that they had doubled the Cape, and a second written two days later and running as follows:--] "August 22nd .-- Dr.Concanen came into my cabin early this morning and told me that his wife had just given birth to a son.

He seemed prodigiously elated; and I congratulated him heartily, as this is the first child born to them.

He stayed but a moment or so with me, and then went back to attend to his wife.