Extract of a Letter from W. Scott, Master of the Porpoisearmed vessel to the Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy datedSimons Bay, Cape of Good Hope...', 17 June 1800 (Series 19.38) - No. 0002

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that are now dead. The Botanist is at this time in Cape Town, agreeably to His Excellency's wish consulting him on this subject.

I embrace this opportunity of giving this information by a Danish Frigate bound from hence to Copenhagen with several Danish India Ships."