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112 away, and endeavour to ave ome of the remains of that unfortunate expedition.

This was the econd expedition which Captain Bligh had undertaken in quet of the bread-fruit tree. In the coure of the firt voyage which he made for the purpoe of procuring this valuable tree to the Wet Indian ettlements of the Englih, he had been et on hore in conequence of a mutiny amongt the crew, of which he publihed an account after his return to England.

We learnt that the Pandora Englih frigate, commanded by Captain Edwards, had ince been at the Society Ilands, where they had eized fourteen of the mutineers. Four of them afterwards made their ecape when the veel was run aground off Norfolk Iland. The ringleader of the mutineers, Chritian, who had been mater of the veel under the command of Captain Bligh, had ecaped with nine others to another iland, and carried everal of the natives with him. One of the officers of the Pandora lately arrived at the Cape, aured us that Bligh had behaved very ill to Chritian, and that an abue of authority on the ide of the captain was the caue of all his ubequent misfortunes. Chritian, though mater of the veel, had been maltreated, according to Captain Bligh's orders, as if he had been