CHARLES WATERTON, ESQ. Ixv 
On the following morning, when we had got up 
our anchor, Captain Peake came alongside of the 
Fame, and invited me to stay with him on board the 
Peacock, until we should reach Barbadoes ; adding 
that, when he had got all the fleet fairly under weigh, 
he would not fail to send his boat for me. 
This, unfortunately, was our last interview. By 
eleven o'clock it blew a gale of wind ; and, as the 
Fame made a poor hand of it when close hauled, we 
drifted bodily to leeward, lost sight of the fleet in 
the evening, and at last barely managed to fetch 
Grenada, in lieu of making Barbadoes. In the mean 
time, Captain Peake, having brought his fleet to an 
anchor in Carlisle Bay, returned to the coast of 
Guiana, where he fell in with an American man-of- 
war She was his superior in men and guns, but not 
in valour, for our brave captain fought her to the 
last ; and he was cut in two by a cannon ball, just 
at the time that his own vessel went down. He was 
held in great esteem by the colonists ; and I have 
heard that they raised a monument to his memory 
in the church at Stabroek. 
The voyage to Europe did not recruit my health. 
When I had landed in Liverpool, I was unable to 
proceed to London with the despatches ; so I sent 
them by the mail, and wrote a letter of apology to 
Lord Bathurst. His lordship returned a very kind 
ansAver, and requested that I would repair to Lon- 
don when I had got better of the tertian ague, as he 
wished me to explore Madagascar. 
When I had rallied a little, I proceeded to Lon- 
don, and waited on him. He told me that I should 
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