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 of to truth! In his appendix to his voyage, peaking of the fever and delirium with which I was afflicted whilt in the hands of the Spaniards, he had tated on Mr. Duffin's ill-founded authority, that the delirium attending that fever was a family infirmity, and after wounding the feelings of all connected with me publihed the following by way of apology and reparation: January 1, 1791. "It is with particular atisfaction that I poes the opportunity of contradicting the mis-information of Mr. Duffin, relative to Captain Colnett's illnes, in his letter to me from Nootka Sound, publihed in my memorial to the Houe of Commons, No. 9, and in the appendix to my voyages. No. 13: Mr. Duffin there mentions, but I am ure very innocently, that Mr. Colnett's inanity is uppoed to be a family diorder; it therefore becomes my duty to declare, from the bet authorities, that uch a report is ditant of any foundation whatever."

On my return to England in 1792, part of the money produced by the ale of the furs, mentioned in my introduction, was placed in one of the firt banking houes in London, in the names of Mers. Mears and Etches, to pay the amount acertained at that time which was due to the heirs or aigns of uch of the eamen as died on the voyage. If there are any monies remaining due to their repreentatives, &c. for los of clothes and private property not yet ettled, I am not accountable.

The mot particular papers relating to the tranaction at Nootka, being lot in his Majety's frigate the Huar which I had the honour to command in December, 1796, I have here given as circumtantial a detail as I can remember, from o long a period as nine years pat. that Gulf, ixteen leagues. Between thee iles, and about half-way to the main, are other mall iles, called the Iabellas, which are remarkable for appearing, in all