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and professional character of my late captain, yet 

 in common with many others^ I cannot refrain from 

 adding my humble testimony to his worth, by 

 recording' my deep sense of many personal favom«, 

 and the assistance which was alwa3's liberally ren- 

 dered me during my natural history investigations 

 throughout the voyage, whenever the more impor- 

 tant objects of the siu"vey permitted. 



By this unfortunate event all previous arrange- 

 ments reg'arding our future proceedings were 

 annulled. It had been intended by Captain Stanley 

 to return to England by way of Singapore and the 

 Cape of Good Hope, adding to the chaiis of the 

 Inner Passage as we went along the east coast of 

 Austraha, and making a careful siu"vey of the Strait 

 of Alass, between the islands of Lombock and 

 Sumhawa. Captain the Hon. Henry Keppel of 

 H. M. S. Moeander, as senior naval officer present, 

 having appointed Lieutenant Yule to the vacancy 

 in the command of the Rattlesnake, with orders to 

 proceed direct to England, we left Sydney for that 

 purpose on May 2nd. The Bramble was left behind 

 in the colony, and in addition to her former crew, 

 the hmited accommodations of our ship were still 

 further crowded with the greater number of the Port 

 Essington marines, some invalids, and other pas- 

 sengers, making up the number on board to upwards 

 of 230 persons. 



A course was steered to pass to the northward of 

 New Zealand without calling there, but shortly 



