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Nootka Sound Sepr 26th 1792
Sir Joseph
I was favoured with your letter by the Dadalus store Ship on our arrival here about 20 Days ago - this ship is been about eleven months on her passage from England - on this side of Cape Horn she touched at the Marquesas [Islands] & in a few days after leaving them, at a cluster of Islands where they found a fine Harbour & received good refreshments & much civility from the Inhabitants - tho' these were a new discovery to them we have since learned that the Americans claim a priority - they afterwards touched at the Sandwich Isles where they unfortunately lost Lieut: Hergest Mr. Gooch the Astronomer & a Seaman at the Island of Woahoo on the 10th of May last - the manner in which this fatal accident happened (they say) was thus. The