218 BARQUE PRINCE OF WALES' CREW. 



a too free use of it was always attended by salivation, 

 and enjoining an application of but a small quantity. 

 I used it pretty freely, but experienced no bad eliect 

 from it. 



On the oth of October we picked up a spruce plank, 

 about twelve feet in length and three in breadth ; it 

 was copper-fastened, and was adjudged to be part of 

 the keel of a large ship. 



On the 17th we ran in and anchored in French- 

 man's Bay, intending to procure a supply of water. 

 This bay is the introduction to King George's Sound, 

 and is a safe and pleasant harbor. We lay Avithiu a 

 mile of the shore, and from a spring close to the 

 beach, procured three hundred barrels of most ex- 

 cellent Avater. There were no vessels in the bay, but 

 in the sound there was an English barque, the Prince 

 of Wales. She brought out to the sound materials 

 for the erection of two light-houses — one on Point 

 Possession, at the entrance of the sound; the other 

 on Breaksea, at the mouth of Frenchman's Bay. 

 These have long been needed on the coast, and their 

 advent will be a matter of congratulation to the 

 navigator in these seas. The crew of this vessel 

 refused to proceed in her, alleging as a reason her 

 immoderate leakage, asserting that she was unsafe 

 and unseaworthy. The crew, including the second 

 mate, on the complaint of the captain, were arrested 

 by the authorities, and kept in durance vile until 

 such time as the vessel should leave the port. This 

 probation had now continued for months, and as the 

 crew were determined not to embark in her, a new 

 crew was shipped, and, on the arrival of orders from 

 England, she sailed for some port in the West 



