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»77<5- purcbafed into the fervice, and the command of her given 



February, * ,-,,, r j t ■ 



X ,-.:./ to Captain Gierke, who had been my lecond Lieutenant on 



board the Rcfolution, in myfecond voyage round the world, 

 from which we had lately returned. 



Thefe two fhips were, at this time, in the dock at Dept- 

 ford, under the hands of the fhipwrightsj being ordered to 

 be equipped to make farther difcoveries in the Pacific Ocean, 

 under my diredlion. 

 SaSaj9. On the 9th of March, the Rcfolution was hauled out of 

 dock into the River; where we completed her rigging, and 

 took on board the ftores and provifions requifite for a voyage 

 of fuch duration. Both fliips, indeed, were fupplied with 

 as much of every neceflary article as we could conveniently 

 flow, and with the beft of every kind that could be pro- 

 cured. And, befides this, every thing that had been found, 

 by the experience acquired during our former extenfive 

 voyages, to be of any utility in preferving the health of 

 fcamen, was fupplied in abundance. 



May. It was our intention to have failed to Long Reach on the 



Monday 6. 6th of May, when a pilot came on board to carry us thither; 



but it was the igrh before the wind would permit us to 



Thurfday3o. Hiovc; and the 30th before we arrived at that ftation, where 



our artillery, powder, fhot, and other ordnance ftores were 



received. 



Tune. While we lay in Long Reach, thus employed, the Earl of 



Sandwich, Sir Hugh Pallifer, and others of the Board of Ad- 



miraltj, as the laft mark of the very great attention they 



had all along fliewn to this equipment, paid us a vifit on 



the 8th of June, to examine whether every thing had been 



completed conformably to their intentions and orders, and 



to the fatisfadion of all who were to embark in the voyage. 



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