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Chap. VIII.]
ANCHOR IN PORT LOUIS.
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Mr. Mowbray was at the same time appointed purser of the Terror; all of which appointments were subsequently confirmed by the Admiralty.

Mr. Hallett acquainted me that Lieutenant Moody of the Royal Engineers was at present Lieutenant-Governor of the settlement, having arrived so recently as January last, and succeeded Lieutenant Tyssen, commander of Her Majesty's ketch, Sparrow, who up to that period had been in charge of the Falkland Islands.