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to the infinite regret of every one who had witneffed how little 

 of the favage was found in his manner, and how quickly he was 

 fubftituting in its place a docile, affable, and truly amiable de- 

 portment. 



After an abfence of feven months and fix days, to the great fatif- 

 faction of every one, about five in the evening on the 6th of May, 

 His Majefty's fhip Sirius anchored in the Cove from the Cape of 

 Good Hope. Captain Hunter failed from that port on the 2d of 

 October 1788, and, during the fpace which had elapfed between his 

 departure and return, had circumnavigated the globe. He made his 

 paflage by Cape Horn, arriving on the 2d of January 1787, from 

 which place he failed on the 20th of the following month. Off the 

 fouthern extremity of this country the Sirius met with a gale of 

 wind, when fo clofe in with the land that it was fome time doubtful 

 whether me would clear it. In this gale fhe received considerable da- 

 mage ; the head of the fhip was torn from the cutwater,, and fhe was 

 afterwards found to have been very much weakened. 



The Sirius brought one hundred and twenty-feven thoufand weight 

 of flour for the fettlement, and a twelvemonth's provifions for her 

 fhip's company ; but this fupply was not very flattering, as the fhort 

 fpace of four months, at a full ration, would exhauft it. It was, 

 however, very welcome, and her return feemed to have gladdened 

 every heart. Eager were their inquiries after intelligence from that 

 country from which they had been now two years divided, and to 

 whofe tranfactions they had during that time been entire ftrangers. 



With joy, mingled with concern that they were not perfonal fharers 

 in the triumph, did they hear of their country's fuccefsful efforts in 

 the caufe of the Stadtholder, and of the noble armaments which the 

 King of England had fitted out to fupport it. They trufted, how- 

 ever, that while differently employed, their views were flill directed 

 to the fame object ; for though labouring at a diftance, and in an 

 humbler fcene, yet the good, the glory, and the aggrandifement of 

 their country, were prime confiderations with them. And why mould 



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