o f furs, though the number has never been mentioned.®
He left Nootka the latter end of September, and arrived
at Macao the end o f December of the fame year. The
fame Gentleman failed again from Macao in May, 1786
in the Sea Otter, o f one hundred and twenty tons, and
arrived at King George’s Sound in Auguft., The fuc-
cefs he met with in this expedition was never made
known, but no doubt it was greatly inferior to that of
his former v o y a g e h e arrived at Macao in February*
1787.
The fnow Lark, Captain Peters, o f two hundred and
twenty tons and forty men, failed from Macao in July,,
1786, Captain Peters had orders to make the North
Weft Coaft, by way of Kamfehatka, and was dire&ed to
examine the iflands to the Northward o f Japan. He arrived
at Kamfehatka the '2 0th of Auguft, and left that
place the 1 8th of September. Accounts have fince been
received,, that this veiTel was loft on Copper Ifland, and
that only two o f the people were faved..
In the beginning o f 1786, the lhow Captain Cook,
of three hundred tons, and the fnow Experiment, of one
hundred
o f tKe furs wKi<* Save Been; eollefted on the-
Nprth Welt Coaft, will he given in. the following Work.,
hundred tons, were fitted out from Bombay. Thefe vef-
fels arrived at Nootka the end of June following ; from
thence they proceeded to Prince William’s Sound/ After
fome ftay there, they left the coaft, and afterwards arrived
fafe at Macao ; but the quantity of furs they procured
is fuppofed to have been very inconfiderable.
In the Spring o f the fame year, 1786, two veflels were
fitted out from Bengal, viz. the Nootka, of two hundred
tons, Captain Meares, and the Sea Otter, o f one hundred
tons, Captain Tipping.
Captain Meares failed from Bengal in March, and an
account of his deftination is given in the following Work,
as he was met with by us in Prince William s Sound.
The Sea-Otter, Captain Tipping, left Calcutta a few
days after the Nootka. Her deftination was for Prince
William’s Sound, where file arrived in September, whilft
the Captain Cook and the Experiment were there. She
left the Sound the day after, fuppofed for Cook’s River,
but having never fince been heard of, there can be but
little doubt of her being loft.
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