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day, the Hampshire, East India ship, from Bencoolen, 

 anchored in the bay, and saluted us with thirteen 

 guns, which we returned with eleven. 



Nothing remarkable happened till the evening of 

 the 31st, when it came on to blow excessively hard 

 at S. E., and continued for three days ; during which 

 time there was no communication between the ship 

 and the shore. The Resolution was the only ship 

 in the bay that rode out the gale without dragging 

 her anchors. We felt its effects as sensibly on shore. 

 Our tents and observatory were torn to pieces ; and 

 our astronomical quadrant narrowly escaped irre- 

 parable damage. On the 3d of November the storm 

 ceased, and the next day we resumed our different 

 employments. 



On the 6th, the Hampshire India ship, sailed for 

 England. In her I sent home an invalid, whom 

 Captain Trimble was so obliging as to receive on 

 board. I was afterwards sorry that I had not availed 

 myself of this opportunity to part with two or three 

 more of my crew, who were troubled with different 

 complaints ; but, at this time, there was some hope of 

 their health being re-established. 



In the morning of the 10th, the Discovery arrived 

 in the bay. Captain Clerke informed me that he 

 had sailed from Plymouth on the 1st of August, and 

 should have been with us here a week sooner if the 

 late gale of wind had not blown him off the coast. 

 Upon the whole, he was seven days longer in his 

 passage from England than we had been. He had 

 the misfortune to lose one of his marines, by falling 

 over-board ; but there had been no other mortality 

 amongst his people, and they now arrived well and 

 healthy. 



Captain Clerke having represented to me that his 

 ship was in want of caulking ; that no time might be 

 lost in repairing this defect, next day I sent all my 

 workmen on board her, having already completed 

 this service on board the Resolution. I lent every 



