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106 wihes for your ucces, and the inviolable and perfect attachment with which I am, &c. (Signed)."
 * Ile de France, 9th Nov. 1791.

The Sirius Englih frigate, commanded by Commodore Hunter, and bound for New Holland, was cat away off Norfolk Iland in the South Sea, towards the end of the year 1790. The hip's company were taken on board a loop that accompanied the frigate, and carried to Botany Bay, where Commodore Philips engaged a mall Dutch veel to convey the hipwrecked crew, together with their commander, to England.

Having ailed from Botany Bay in this veel, with an intent to touch at Batavia, they were carried by contrary winds and the force of the currents as far eatward as 167° E. long. meridian of Greenwich. Wihing to pas through the Straits of St. George, they came within ight of the Admiralty Ilands, ituated in 147° E. long. 3° 25′ S. lat. Near to the mot eaterly of thee ilands