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senger in the Porpoise ; in order to lay my charts and journals be- 
fore the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, and obtain, if such 
should be their pleasure, another ship to complete the examination 
of Terra Australis. The last service I could render to the colony with 
the Investigator and my people, was to lay down an additional pair of 
moorings in Sydney Cove ; and that done, we left the ship as a store- 
house hulk on the 21st, and prepared for our voyage to England. 
The Porpoise was commanded by Mr. William Scott, a senior 
master in the navy ; but he and the greater part of his people having 
expressed a wish to be discharged, it was complied with ; and the 
command was given to Mr. Fowler, first lieutenant of the Inves- 
tigator, and another crew of thirty-eight men selected from the ship's 
company. In disposing of the other officers and people their several 
inclinations were consulted. The surgeon took his passage in the 
Bridgewater to India, the gunner remained charged with the care of 
the Investigator's stores, and Mr. Evans, master's mate, was left sick 
at the hospital ; Messrs. Brown, Bauer, and Allen stayed at Port 
Jackson to prosecute their researches in natural history, until my 
arrival with another ship, or until eighteen months should expire 
without their having received intimation that the voyage was to be 
continued ; nine men were discharged at their own request, and 
the twenty-two remaining officers and men, including myself, em- 
barked in the Porpoise as passengers. 
Of the nine convicts who had been received into the Investi- 
gator, one had died ; another had behaved himself so improperly, 
that I could not recommend him to the governor ; and the remaining 
seven were fully emancipated by His Excellency from their sentence 
of transportation, their conduct having been such throughout, as to 
receive my approbation. Four of these were entered into t he com- 
plement of the Porpoise ; but I am sorry to add, that the subsequent 
behaviour of two was different to what it had been when their 
liberty was at stake, and that a third was condemned to the hulks 
not very long after he reached England. 
1S03, 
July. 
