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came to an anchor & on the following day sent an armed Boat on shore to demand the two gentlemen - when they were informed of their being both massacred on the preceding evening & could procure no part of them as the Natives were all armed on an adjacent Hill where it was not in their power to use any compulsive means. - Thus situated they left the Sandwich Island & arrived here about the beginning of July. -
I shall now proceed to give you a short account of our own progress since the date of my last letter to you from the Cape of Good Hope - we left that place on the 27th of Augt: 1791 & afterwards experienced a series of tempestuous weather untill we passed the Meridian of the east end of Madagascar - on the 26th Sept. we made the coast of N. Holland in the Lat: of 35o- south & Long. 116o-15' East. - we coasted on to the Eastward for about 33 Leagues, when we entered a harbour which obtained the Name of King George Sound, in at 35o - 5' S. & Long 118o - 16' E. here we remained for about a