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of the 1807 edition in the British Museum is the one in the Grenville Library, and I could not find any MS. notes in it.

As regards the ship De Grave, which was her correct name, and her commander Capt. Young, Capt. Oliver in 1885 applied for information to the India Office, and was told by the then Registrar and Superin- tendent of Records that

" prior to 1702 there existed two East India Companies the Old or London Company and the New English Company. The former had no such ship as the De Grave, nor any com- mander named Young or Younge ; but the New Company had the De Grave as one of the first three vessels they sent to India."

On referring, howaver, to M. Albert Pitot's recently published ' T'Eylandt Mauritius ' (Port Louis, 1905), we find on p. 303 an extract from a letter dated 3 April, 1703, from Deodati, the Governor of Mauri- tius, in which he reports that Capt. Michael Young, commander of the frigate Grove (sic) of Bengal had arrived at the North-East port (Port Louis) in a damaged condition and leaky, having run aground in the Gulf of Bengal and smashed six feet of the rudder.

Drury also relates in his ' Journal ' that Capt. Boon, a pirate, had been at Mauritius " about two months before, he having just then plundered a very rich Moorish ship, and had taken out of her 50 Lascars [whom the pirates were forced to leave behind for want of room]. These people we took with us."

The extract from Deodati's letter does not mention the pirate-captain's name, but gives the namo of his ship (" le corsaire Spreek Trumpet "), and states that 30 blacks, 10 Lascars, and 2 young children, also Las- cars all landed from the pirate ship, and detained in Mauritius the previous year were sent to the Cape by the same damaged vtssel (the De Grave), as they would not work on the island and were at the charge of the Company, who had to find them salt for their fish.

The Capt. Boon in question was no other than the notorious pirate John Bowen, \\ hose biography is given in Capt. Charles John- son's ' History of the Pyrates ' (vol. ii. pp. 49 et seq., and additions at p. 371 and passim), where one of his ships is named the Speaker. On another page M. Pitot calls the ship " le corsaire Speaking Trumpet (le Porte- Voix) " in his narrative, but qiiotes the official text of a resolution of the Counci of the 9th of January, 1702 (from the Cape of Good Hope Archives), wherein the pirate ship is also called the Speaker.

M. Pitot finds fault with some of Drury's dates, but the greater part of the difficulty

will vanish if we remember that Drury'e ship passed through the downs on 19 Feb., 1701, Old Style, that is in 1702. L. L. K.

INSCRIPTIONS IN JERUSALEM.

(See ante, p. 25.)

I CONCLUDE the list of inscriptions copied )y me at Jerusalem last March :

16. Charles Frederick Tyrwhitt | Drake i Born Jan. 2nd, 1847 [?]. I Died 1871 [?]. | This is life eternal that Christ | Whom Thou hast sent. There is also an Arabic inscription ; and a cup in the stone. On a stone cross on a slab.
 * hey might know | Thee the only God and Jesus

17. Corporal James Duncan j H.B.M. Royal Engineers | Died 10 August, 1868 | When employed' on the | Jerusalem Excavations. | Erected by his Comrades. On a broken column on a slab.

18. In loving memory of | Sarah Ann Stanton | Born in London Sept. 13, 1842. | She came to Syria in 1864 | In connection with the | Society for Pro- moting Female | Education in the East, and I Finished her course | At Bethlehem, Nov. 3rd, 1878.-

Through our Lord Jesus | Christ. 1 Cor. xv. 57. On a flat marble slab.
 * Thanks be to God which | Giveth us the victory ]

19. In loving memory of [ Robert S. Lauterstein | Died Easter Morn April 1st, 1878 | Aged 69 years. On a stone cross within a border.

20. In memory | of [ Rev. James Henry Vidal | Vicar of Chiddingly | County of Essex [Sussex?], England | Who died March 15, 1875 | Aged 55 | There remaineth therefore | a rest for the People of God. | Hebr. 4 ch. 9 v. On a railed flat stone.

21. Sacred | To the memory | of | Caroline Cooper late of | Henley on Thames | England | Born on the

4 September, 1806 | Who after a residence of eleven years | in Jerusalem | Departed this life on the | 22 November, 1859. | Looking for that blessed hope and the | glorious appearing of the great God and | Saviour Jesus Christ. Titus 2. 13. | Blessed are the- dead which die in the Lord from | henceforth, yea, saith the Spirit, that they may | rest from their labours, | And their works do follow them. Rev. 14, 13. On a flat stone.

22. John Bowes Johnston died | Nov. 6, 1859. | Aged 55 years. | Resident in | Jerusalem | From Oct. 1838. On a flat stone.

23. Beneath this monument rest the mortal remains of | Robert Bateson, Esq. M.P. | Eldest son of Sir Robert Bateson, Baronet, | Of Belvoir Park. Ireland. | He died in Jerusalem on the 24th of December, 1843 | Aged 27 years. | He was an affec- tionate son, a kind brother, a true friend : j Be- loved by all for the sweetness of his disposition, | As he was esteemed for the sincerity of his cha- racter | For the purity of his mind and religious principles ! And the integrity of his public con- duct, f His strength of mind was only equalled by the goodness of his heart, | His manners were gentle, his demeanour unassuming | And his many virtues were further adorned | By his varied know- ledge and highly cultivated understanding. | Above all he neglected not the one thing needful | For with unshaken faith and fervent piety | He placed his whole trust in the mercy of his Saviour Jesus Christ | (fully assured of salvation through His blood) i And died as he had lived, a true Christian-