was uninfluenced by any claim in my favour, but ſuch as my ſervices, whatever they might have been, ſuggeſted to the juſtice and generoſity of his character.
In conſequence of this application, I was informed that the Board of Admiralty had nominated me to undertake a voyage, planned in conſequence of a memorial from merchants of the City of London, concerned in the South Sea Fiſheries, to the Board of Trade; for the purpoſe of diſcovering ſuch parts for the South Whale Fiſhers who voyage round Cape Horn, as might afford them the neceſſary advantages of refreſhment and ſecurity to refit.
This memorial ſtated the calamitous ſituation of the ſhip's crews employed in this trade, from the ſcurvy and other diſeaſes, incident to thoſe who are obliged to keep the ſeas, from the want of that relief and refreſhment, which is afforded by intermediate harbours.
