Various Arts Were
Ineffectually Tried To Induce Him To Enter The Ship; But As He Continued
To Decline The Invitation, A Barber Was Sent Down Into The Boat Along-Side
The Canoe, From Whence, Leaning Over The Gunnel, He Complied With The Wish
Of The Old Beau, To His Infinite Satisfaction.
In addition to the consequences
which our sanguine hopes led us to expect from this dawning of cordiality,
it affords proof, that the beard is considered by this people more as
an incumbrance than a mark of dignity.
CHAPTER XII.
The Departure of the French from Botany Bay; and the Return of the 'Supply'
from Norfolk Island;
with a Discovery made by Lieutenant Ball on his Passage to it.
About the middle of the month our good friends the French departed from
Botany Bay, in prosecution of their voyage. During their stay in that port,
the officers of the two nations had frequent opportunities of testifying
their mutual regard by visits, and every interchange of friendship and esteem.
These ships sailed from France, by order of the King, on the
1st of August, 1785, under the command of Monsieur De Perrouse, an officer
whose eminent qualifications, we had reason to think, entitle him to fill
the highest stations. In England, particularly, he ought long to be remembered
with admiration and gratitude, for the humanity which marked his conduct,
when ordered to destroy our settlement at Hudson's Bay, in the last war.
His second in command was the Chevalier Clonard, an officer also of
distinguished merit.
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