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thinking it for that reason probable that the Portland 

 would get home before us, I made the signal to speak 

 with her, upon which Captain Elliot himself came on 

 board, and I delivered to him a letter to the Ad- 

 miralty, with a box, containing the common log- 

 books of the ship, and the journals of some of the 

 officers. We continued in company, however, till the 

 23d in the morning, and then there was not one of 

 the ships in sight. About one o'clock in the after- 

 noon died our first lieutenant Mr. Hicks, and in 

 the evening we committed his body to the sea, with 

 the usual ceremonies. The disease of which he died, 

 was a consumption, and as he was not free from it 

 when we sailed from England, it may truly be said 

 that he was dying during the whole voyage, though 

 his decline was very gradual till we came to Batavia: 

 the next day I gave Mr. Charles Clerk an order to 

 act as lieutenant in his room, a young man who was 

 extremely well qualified for that station. 



Our rigging and sails were now become so bad, that 

 something was giving way every day. We continued 

 our course, however, in safety till the 10th of June, 

 when land, which proved to be the Lizard, was dis- 

 covered by Nicholas Young, the same boy that first 

 saw New Zealand; on the 11th, we run up the chan- 

 nel; at six in the morning of the 12th we passed 

 Beachy Head ; at noon we were abreast of Dover, and 

 about three came to an anchor in the Downs, and 

 went ashore at Deal. 



END OF THE SECOND VOLUME. 





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