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pearcd that Bligh did not learn from Hunter 

 any thing relative to the depofitions of the two 

 French captains ; but according to the informa- 

 tion communicated by the perfons who had feen 

 the commander of the Atalante, he afiured 

 Colonel Gordon, that, on his return from the 

 Society Iflands, he would make inquiries in thefe 

 leas where it was aflerted that La Peroufe had 

 been loft, in order to endeavour to lave fome 

 remains of his unfortunate expedition. 



This was the fecond time that Captain Bligh 

 went to the Society Iflands in queft of the bread- 

 fruit tree ; for during the firft voyage which he 

 had made to procure this valuable tree for the 

 Englifh colonies in the Weft Indies, he had 

 been turned out of his fhip in confequence 

 of a mutiny which had broken out on board, as 

 he has made known by the narrative which he 

 publifhed on his return to England. 



We learnt that the Pandora, an Englifh, 

 frigate, commanded by Captain Edwards, had 

 fince been at the Society Iflands, where he had 

 laid hold of fourteen of the mutineers. She 

 had loft four of them on running aground on 

 the reefs of Norfolk Ifland. Chriftian, the 

 mailer * of the fhip of which Bligh was dif- 



* This is evidently a miftake of the author. Chriftiaa 

 was only matter's mate of the Bounty. T. 



poffeffed, 



