1791. December.
vould of couiTe have enabled mc to illulliate many points and dcfcrip- tions which, for that rcafon, I have not been able to infert. Tl'.c unfortunate, as well as the fuccefsful adventures of perfon^ employed on fervices of a public nature, being generally objefcls of minute inquiry, I fliall conclude this chapter with the account deli- vered to me by Mr. New, the mailer of the Da'dahis tranlport, ol the melancholy fate that attended Lieutenant Ilergefl her commander, Mr. Gooch the allronomcr, and the unfortunate feaman who was mur- dered with them. In their palTagc from Hergefl's to the Sandwicli iflands there did not appear any thing worthy of remark except a flrong current that fet at the rate of 30 miles a day, and obliged them to fland to the eaflward led they fhould fall to leeward of thofe iflands. The Dxdalus by this means arrived off Owhyhee, and Mr. Hergefl; received the orders I had left there. From thence he proceeded to the n.w. fide of Woahoo, not ha- ving any expeftation of finding the Difcovery at that time on the fouth fide of the ifland, as 1 had appointed. This unfortunate determination, though contrary to the orders I had given, appeared to him at the time to be right, in order to infure the mofl expeditious palfage towards Nootka. In the morning of the 7th of may, the Daedalus arrived in that bay where the Refolution and Difcovery had anchored in 1779; ^^^ ^'"• Herged declined anchoring there, as he conhdered the inhabitants of that neighbourhood to be the moft favage and deceitful of any amongfl; thofe iflands. F'or tjnis reafon he lay to, and purchafed from the natives fome hogs, vegetables, and a few gourds of water. In the evening he flood off fliore, and defired that the inhabitants would bring a further fupply of wa- ter and refrefliments the next morning; but it falling calm, and the cur- rent felting the fliip to the weftward, it was near noon on the i jth before they regained the fliore, when Mr. Hergefl; receded from his former wife determination, and unhappily for himfelf and thofe who fell with him, ordered the fliip to be anchored. The cutter was hoifted out and veered aftern for the better convenience of purchafing water from the natives, but before three caflcs were filled, which was foon done, he ordered the cutter I , .: !'"' ■ 1 'si ' ■ ' .:( ■■ i '■'■ 'P.
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