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“Permit me to wish you a good voyage, in any case.”
At that moment Mr. Sparling called from the piazza: “Your boat is waiting, Captain Bligh!”
Bligh took my hand in a brief, warm clasp.
“Good-bye, Ledward,” he said. “Don’t fail to call on Mrs. Bligh when you reach London.”
“I shall hope to see you, too, sir.”
He shook his head. “It’s not likely. If I have my way, I shall sail for Otaheite before you reach England.”
He was gone—the finest seaman under whom I have ever had the good fortune to sail. From the bottom of my heart I wished him God Speed.
THE RUN OF THE LAUNCH
(From the Island of Tofoa to Coupang, on the Island of Timor)
Year 1789No. of MilesMay 38649559468477986296410781110212891379148915(no record)161011710018106191002075219922130231162411425108261122710928(no record)Entered the Great Barrier Reef2918To Restoration Island30—At Restoration Island3130To Sunday IslandJune 110To Lagoon Island230335To Turtle Island4111Clear of New Holland5108611778881069107101111110912(no record)Sighted Timor1354Coasting Timor14(no record)Reached CoupangTotal distance run, 3618 miles