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No 15.
Bounty at St Helens
Decr. 12 1787
Dear Sir
I write this to acquaint you that I am exceedingly sorry I troubled you with a wrong piece of information. - The Ariel is arrived here and Mr. Moorson not made, but I conceived it to be so true that being sensible of your goodness I thought it best to acquaint you of it. - The wind is fixed and blows so very hard from the westward that it is impossible to get down Channel -
I learnt from a Ship from America Yesterday that they have had nothing but Westerly Winds, and that they saw several West Indiamen who left in the last easterly Winds who could not weather C. Finister so that upon the whole I should not have been much farther advanced in my Voyage. - A great many Ships have put back & are now lying wind bound. I remain Dear Sir with much gratitude and respect your obliged and affectionate Humble Sevt.
Wm Bligh