Letter received by Banks from Philip Gidley King, April, 21August 1801 (Series 39.064) - No. 0006

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charming young man, and on examining his log book I found he had made many [indecipherable] observations, but was particularly struck with his observations respecting Kents Group, which is so opposite to my Friend Bass] that I enclose both the one, & the other, not with a view of pointing out any premature judgment of Mr. Bass, "as the vessell he was in only ran through the passage, & they did not land on the Islands" at; but here to reconcile the Idea of such numbers of Kangaroo being on such an isolated spot, is to me unaccountable; and seemed so very improbable, that I have engaged this young man to make all the observations he can in the course of his present voyage, & have persuaded a Mr [indecipherable] who I believe you have heard of, to accompany him and as their object is to try about for seals of course discovery & investigation will be only a Secondary object with them, still I am pretty certain the young man will not be idle or inattentive to promote my wishes  It is my intention to dispatch the Lady Nelson (to complete the orders he first sailed with, which I have before stated, about the latter end of September, when he will have all the summer before him, & I make no doubt will do a great deal: I also hope it will be in my power, to spare a small vessell of her own size, to go with her, which will make up for a very great defect in the Lady Nelson, which is the utter impossibility of her ever being able to beat off a Lee Shore, which her