INTRODUCTION. xxxiii 
to Aofe In whofe fuccefs he has no Intereft, 
would be propofing an aSion that he would 
confider in the light of infanity. 
Of the merit and bravery of the different 
officers deftined to command the forts and the 
troops, I have nothing to fay. They were 
all, no doubt, men of courage and talents, 
all worthy of the pofts affigned, or the rank 
conferred upon them ; but I very much regret-* 
ted that I did not fee among them the brave and 
intrepid Staarlng. This feaman, fmce fnatch- 
ed by the hand of death from his family and 
country, had lately given an example of refo- 
lution that aftoniihed the whole colony ; and I 
publifh it here with the more pleafure, as I 
fhall thus, in part, difcharge what I owe to 
the memory of a man to whom I was exceed- 
ingly attached. 
A flilp under Danifli colours had an- 
chored in the Cape Bay ; and there were rea- 
fons 
