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APPENDIX. A. 
These conditions were accordingly complied 
with, and an agreement # concluded between 
Captain Jones and Mr. Phelps on one part, and 
the Tatsroed Stephensen and the Amptman his 
brother on the other, in which it was stipulated, 
that the latter gentlemen, being the next in rank 
to Count Tramp, should take upon them the go¬ 
vernment of the island, and be responsible for 
the persons and property of British subjects. 
Mr. Phelps, therefore, together with Count Tramp 
and Lieutenant Stewart of the Talbot (the latter 
charged with dispatches from Captain Jones) 
embarked in the Margaret and Anne, and Mr. 
Jorgensen in the Orion for England. On the 
third day of the voyage, however, the Danish pri¬ 
soners, as is detailed in the journal, set fire to the 
Margaret and Anne; in consequence of which 
she was entirely consumed; but the passengers 
and crew, having been providentially saved by 
the Orion, returned on the 29th of August to 
Reikevig, where no other alteration in affairs took 
place, except that Mr. Phelps and Mr. Jorgensen'f* 
with Lieutenant Stewart embarked in the Orion 
* See Appendix B., No. 9. 
t Having thus brought to a conclusion that part of the 
narrative in which Mr. Jorgensen has been concerned, it may 
be interesting to some of my readers to know what has since 
