Distance Run. Cable Paid Out. Miles. Miles. Saturday, 14th 108 116 Sunday, 15th 128 139 Monday, 16th 115 137 Tuesday, 17th 117 138 Wednesday, 18th 104 125 Thursday, 19th 112 129 Friday, 20th 117 127 Saturday, 21st 121 136 Sunday, 22nd 123 133 Monday, 23rd 121 138 Tuesday, 24th 120 135 Wednesday, 25th 119 130 Thursday, 26th 128 134 Friday, 27th 100 104.” This table shows the speed of the ship to have been exactly according to the “running time” fixed before she left England. On the last voyage it was thought that she had once or twice run too fast, and thus exposed the cable to danger. It was therefore decided to go slowly but surely. Holding her back to this moderate pace, her average speed from the time the splice was made until they saw land was a little less than five nautical miles an hour, while the cable was paid out at an average of not quite five and half miles. Thus the total slack was about eleven per cent., showing that the cable was laid almost in a straight line, allowing for the swells and hollows at the bottom of the sea. “Friday, July 27.—Shortly after 2 p.m. yesterday two ships, which were soon made out to be steamers, were seen to the westward; and the _Terrible_, steaming on ahead, in about an hour signalled to us that H.M.S. _Niger_ was one of them, accompanied by the _Albany_. The _Niger_, Captain Bunce, sent aboard to the _Terrible_ as soon as he came up with her. The _Albany_ shortly afterwards took up her position on our starboard quarter, and signalled that she spoke the _Niger_ at noon, bearing E. by N., and that the _Lily_ was anchored at the station in the entrance of Trinity Bay, as arranged with the Admiral. The _Albany_ also reported that she had passed an iceberg about sixty feet high. At twenty minutes after 4 p.m. the _Niger_ came on our port side, quite close, and Captain Bunce, sending the crew into the rigging and manning the yards, gave us three cheers, which were heartily returned by the _Great Eastern_. She then steamed ahead towards Trinity Bay. The _Albany_ was signalled to go on immediately to Heart’s Content, clear the N.E. side of the harbour of shipping, and place a boat with a red flag for Captain Anderson to steer to for anchorage. Just before dinner we saw on the southern horizon, distant about ten miles, an iceberg, probably the one that the _Albany_ had met with. It was apparently about fifty or sixty feet in height. The fog came on very thickly about 8 p.m., and between that and 10 we were constantly exchanging guns and burning blue lights with the _Terrible_, which, with the _Niger_, went in search of the _Lily_ station‐ship.