5 AVOYAGETO 
c K A P. the age of twelve? he went to the Eaft Indies on 
V— ^ board th.e Sv/aliov/ frigate, Captain Shirley, by whom 
he was rated a raidiliipman. From this ftation he 
returned to Englandj at the end of five years, with 
much knowledge of his bufinefs, and fome acquaintance 
with the world. In 1775, he entered upon real fervice ; 
and has continued in atlive employment from that pe- 
riod to this great epoch of his life. He went to Virginia 
with Captain Belle w, in the Liverpool? during the year 
1775; with v/hom he continued till the fliip wreck of 
that frigate in Delaware Bay. And having entered on- 
board the Princefs Royal, in Od:ober 1778, he was made 
a Lieutenant by A^dniiral Byron, into the Renovvn, on the 
26th of November following. He returned to England in 
the fubfequent year^ and ferved in the Channel on board 
the Kite cutter, and A^riadne frigate, till the beginning of 
1 7,8 3. ¥/ith Captain Phillip he went to the Eaft Indies, as 
Lieutenant of the Europe, in January 17S3; from 
■wdience he returned on the reftoration of complete peace, 
in May 1784. In this fervice it was, that Phillip and 
King became acquainted v/ith the m.erit of each other. 
And Vvhen the expedition to Nevv' South Wales vras pro- 
jedted. King was appointed Lieutenant of the Sirius, on 
the S5th of Odober, 1786, at the fame time that Phillip 
,was nominated Commander of the vovao;e. 
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