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he seems a most indefatigable man & worthy of every encouragement even to double his pay - such is his character here. -
I shall inclose to you an account of the plants left here, and of those received from Dr. Anderson, that you may be able to judge how I proceed - eight days at most will be my passage to Jamaica, I call my arrival therefore the 8th of Feby. - A month I imagine will be my stay there, & two months will be my passage home - by this way of reckoning I hope to have the happyness to see you on the 8th of May. -
I remain My Dear Sir with warmest attachment & respect
Your obliged & most affectionate Hmbl Servt
Wm Bligh
Should the Admiralty conceive I have not acquainted them so fully as I ought to have done, pray have the goodness to account for it by my not being able to bear writing from my ill health - your wine is in fine order
Sir Joseph Banks Bart