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The determinations of all were required to be given on the following 
day ; and in the mean time we began to take on board the few 
stores necessary to complete the Cumberland for our voyage, and 
especially to fill the holds with waiter, of which there was yet a good 
quantity remaining on the bank. 
On the 10th, three days after our arrival, the Rolla had re- 
ceived the people destined for her, with part of the provisions and 
stores; and the Cumberland was ready to sail. All those whom I 
had named, with the exception of my clerk, volunteered to go in the 
schooner ; viz., Mr. John Aken, master, and Mr. Edward Char- 
rington, boatswain of the Investigator, my servant, and seven chosen 
seamen. A cask containing what had been saved of my specimens 
of mineralogy and conchology was taken on board, as also the charts, 
books, and papers of every kind, with the instruments received from 
the Navy Board and the sole time keeper which had not stopped. 
Mr. Denis Lacy, master’s mate of the Investigator, desiring 
to return to Port Jackson, he was charged with my letter to His 
Excellency governor King ; and I gave him an order to command 
the new boat. It was about the size of the Cumberland, had a deck, 
and was called the Resource ; and we manned her with a part of those 
people whose choice led them back to Port Jackson. I ordered Mr. 
James Aikin, commander of the Francis, and Mr. Lacy, to take on 
board for the colony as much of the stores as they should be able ; 
and on their arrival, to make a statement to the governor of the con- 
dition in which they might leave the Porpoise, and what remained 
on the bank. 
The officers journals, which were to be sent to the Admiralty 
at the conclusion of the voyage, had not been demanded at the time 
of our shipwreck ; lieutenant Fowler was therefore directed to take 
all that were saved belonging to the officers embarked with him 
in the Rolla ; and lest any accident should happen to the Cumber- 
land, I committed to his charge a copy of four charts, being all of 
the East and North Coasts which there had been time to get ready ; 
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