CHARLES WATERTON, ESQ. Ixv 



On the following morning, when we had got up 

 our anchor, Captain Peake came alongside of the 

 Fame, and invited me to stay with him on board the 

 Peacock, until we should reach Barbadoes ; adding 

 that, when he had got all the fleet fairly under weigh, 

 he would not fail to send his boat for me. 



This, unfortunately, was our last interview. By- 

 eleven o'clock it blew a gale of wind ; and, as the 

 Fame made a poor hand of it when close hauled, we 

 drifted bodily to leeward, lost sight of the fleet in 

 the evening, and at last barely managed to fetch 

 Grenada, in lieu of making Barbadoes. In the mean 

 time, Captain Peake, having brought his fleet to an 

 anchor in Carlisle Bay, returned to the coast of 

 Guiana, where he fell in with an American man-of- 

 war. She was his superior in men and guns, but not 

 in valour, for our brave captain fought her to the 

 last ; and he was cut in two by a cannon ball, just 

 at the time that his own vessel went down. He was 

 held in great esteem by the colonists ; and I have 

 heard that they raised a monument to his memory 

 in the church at Stabroek. 



The voyage to Europe did not recruit my health. 

 When I had landed in Liverpool, I was unable to 

 proceed to London with the despatches ; so I sent 

 them by the mail, and wrote a letter of apology to 

 Lord Bathurst. His lordship returned a very kind 

 answer, and requested that I would repair to Lon- 

 don when I had got better of the tertian ague, as he 

 wished me to explore Madagascar. 



When I had rallied a little, I proceeded to Lon- 

 don, and waited on him. He told me that I should 

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