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CHAP. XV. 



An Account of a Court of Inquiry held at the Requef of 

 Captai7^ Greer, of the Belvidere, on his People who ?nu~ 

 tinied in his Abfe?ice. — 'The Court's Determination there- 

 on, andPiiniJhment infliSied upon the Mutineers. — Ac- 

 count of meeting with Tyaana at Chifia. — His Beha- 

 viour there. — Atte?ttion paid him. — Return to his own 

 Country. — A port Defcriptioii of his Perfojz. 



Wampoa, 9th December 1787. 



At a Court of Enquiry held on board the Earl Fitz- 

 william in confequence of the following Letter from 

 the Council of Supercargoes : 



To Captain James Dundas, Commander of the Earl Fitz- 

 william, and fenior Com7?iander. 



S I R, 



HAVING taken into ferious confideration the circum- 

 ftances of the late riot and mutiny on board the Bel- 

 videre, and the dreadful confequences that might be ap- '787- 

 prehended to the honourable Company's property, and the 

 general interefl; of the nation, in the trade of this place, 

 were fuch an inflance of licentioufnefs pafled over with- 

 out due punifhment \ and being of opinion with the com- 

 manders whom we have confulted on the occalion, that 



the 



