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all concerning his Voyage. I does not appear from any thing Capt Cook has wrote if 'Oridi' is on board or not. I should rather think that he is; as they musterd the day they came into the Cape of good hope as many men as when they left the Cape - and I think one Man fell over board of New Zealand. If he should arrive before your return, shall it be mention'd to him, that Omai wishes he would live in the same house with him? It seems Mr. Omai has desired Mr. Vigniol to take him in, in case he should come. In all the Letters that are come from the Gentleman on board the Resolution, they speak much in praise of our friend and all other Sth Sea Inhabitants that they have met with: and Nova Caledonia is described as a paradise without Thorns or Thistles. Mr.Pennock has seen Mr. Forsters Letter to Mr. Dr Barrington and made the following abstract: 260 New Plants, 200 new Animals - 71º 10' farthest Sth - no continent - Many Islands, some 80 Leagues long - The Bola Bola savage an corrigible Blockhead - Glorious Voyage - No man lost by sickness.
Yesterday Miss Banks, Mr. & Mrs. Hodgkinson, Capt Cook and myself paid a visite to Capt Riddell on board the Bessborough and afterwards dined with Capt & Mrs Riddell