...g faster than reckoned. This proved to be the actual case, for, in fact, the steamship Lewis was wrecked April 9; 1853, on Duck-worth reef, Baulinas Bay, about eighteen miles above the entrance to San Francisco . The captain had sent ashore the purser in the first boat, with orders to work his way to the city as soon as possible, to report the loss of his vessel, and to bring back help. I remained on t...