Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . fate of the Bounty mutineers van(p. 543) remained so long in doubt, when it is recollected that Expeduring part of the interval the Pacific was being explored by one ditionof the most energetic and successful of maritime George Vancouver, who, in the Discovery (10), accom-panied by the Chatham (4), armed tender, under LieutenantWilliam Robert Broughton, left the Thames on January 26th,179
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . fate of the Bounty mutineers van(p. 543) remained so long in doubt, when it is recollected that Expeduring part of the interval the Pacific was being explored by one ditionof the most energetic and successful of maritime George Vancouver, who, in the Discovery (10), accom-panied by the Chatham (4), armed tender, under LieutenantWilliam Robert Broughton, left the Thames on January 26th,1791, and quitted the Channel early in the following April. His couvers 532 DEVOLUTION AND BE ACTION. [1784- instructions were to proceed to, and survey, the SandwichIslands ; to go thence to Nootka Sound (p. 510), and to takeover from the Spaniards the settlement there; to survey thecoast of what is now Vancouver Island ; and to return home byway of the Sandwich Islands, Cape Horn, and the western coastof South America. Having gone out by the Cape of Good Hope,he struck the south-west point of Australia, coasted eastwards,sighted Van Diemens Land, surveyed part of the south shore of. BOTAXY BAY IX 17SS.{Arthur Philip, Voyage to Botany Bay.) New Zealand, and spent nearly a month at Otaheite. Thencethe vessels went to the Sandwich Islands, and so to Vancouver,then known generally as Nootka, the shores of which werethoroughly explored and surveyed. In Xootka Sound, aftersome time, the expedition was joined by the Dccdalus, store-ship,which had been sent out from England under Lieutenant RichardHergest, who made several valuable discoveries, but Avas killedat Oahu ere he reached the American coast. The Spaniardsproved unwilling to surrender Nootka, and there was conse-quently much delay, which Vancouver utilised by making,further surveys up and down the Pacific shores of the October, 1793, Lieutenant Broughton was sent home withdespatches, and the command of the Chatham
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