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in regard to what he had feen at the Admiralty 

 Iflands. We were not a little furprifed that 

 the Commodore fct fail from Table Bay two 

 hours after we had dropped anchor. He proba- 

 bly was well acquainted with the object of our 

 miffion, for we were expected at the Cape, and 

 the Admiral's flag left no doubt of our being the 

 fhips deftined to go in fearch of La Peroufc. 

 It appeared to us very aflonifhing that he had 

 not himfelf fought to give us the information 

 which Captains Preaudet and Magon Lepinay 

 had collected from him and his officers at Ba- 

 tavia. We had reafon to be very much fur- 

 prifed that Commodore Hunter not only had let 

 tranfpire at the Cape no account which could 

 make it l)e believed that he had met with fa- 

 vages drcflcd in the French naval uniform, but 

 that he had faid to feveral members of the 

 regency, and even to his friend Mr. Gordon, 

 that he had no knowledge of the fads announced 

 on the arrival of the Atalantc. Nothing in- 

 dicated that the details left at the Cape by Cap- 

 tain Bolle, came from Commodore Hunter 

 himfelf. 



Captain Bligh, commanding the Englifh floop 

 of war Providence, dcflined to procure the 

 bread-fruit tree from the Society Iflands, had 

 come and anchored in Table Bay a fhort time 

 after the departure of the Atalantc. It ap- 

 peared 



