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Equipment of the Discovery and the Chatham — Departure from Falniouth — Vifit and tranJaElions at Teneriffe — Occurrences and observations during the pajfage to the Cape of Good Hope — Tranfadions there and departure thence.

1790. December.

On the 15th of December, 1790, I had the honor of receiving my Wcdncf. 7^. comminion as comnr.ander of His Majefty's (loop the Difcovery, then lying at Dcptford, where, the next morning, I joined her, and began Thurfdayj6. entering men.

Lieutenant William Robert Broughton having been feleSed as a proper officer to command the Chatham, he was accordingly appointed ; but the repairs ilie demanded prevented her equipment keeping pace with that of v- — ,~'.»; the Difcovery ; which in moft rcfpcfts being completed by thurfday the Thurfda76. 6th of January, 1791, the fails were bent, and the fliip got in readinefs to