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THE ANDAMANS IN THE IVIIT CENTURY.
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Violent Currents, till her provisions and Water wus nourly expended when the Commander found it necessary to bear up for Bengal; as there was a Great quantity of the Provisions indented for pot yet conveyed to the Settlement I immediately requested the Gharrison Store Keeper, to load the Dispatoh, and have now the pleasure to acquaint you that she is ready to sail -- on board of this Vessel I have Shipped Five Thousand Rupees for the immediate use of the Settlement, and sball send the remaining part of the Cask in my hands on the Bos Horse and Nautilus both of which Vespls will soon be ready to sail with Provisions and Stores.
I also beg leave to acquaint you for the Information of the Board that the Oornwallis Snow is arrived from Port. Cornwallis, having left that place on the 15th of last Month, and I have the pleasure to say that the officer in command there acquaints me that the Settlers are at this season very healthy, and that tour Convicts who had absoonded, hare returned of themselves in a Miserable Starving State and two of them Soverely wounded by the Natives, which
res hope that this example will deter any of them from attempting a dangerous an experiment again.
I have the honor to be don
(Signad) A. Lyd, Superintendant Andamans. Caloutta th February 1708.
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Batablishment of the Honble Company's Brig Dispatch. 1. Commander @ Current Rapers 878 pr Month т офсет
Ditto 100 pr Month 1 Gunner
@Sicon Rapees 40 Ditto 4 Quarter Masters Ditto 98 ench 1 Serang 1 Tindal 1 Cassab 12 Lascars 1 Cook 2 Captain's Servants...
8 each 1 Officer's Servant ...
(Signed) 1 Igd. Arrood that the abovo Establishment fixed by the Superintendent at the Andamans, bo approved, and ordered that a copy of it be sent to the Acting Marino Pay Master for his Information,
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1795. - Xo. IX.
-20th February 1795. Read the following Letter and its Enclosure from the Commissary of Stores To Edward Hay Esqr... Secretary to Government.
Sir, I herewith have the honor to forward List of two Bills of Lading for Stores shipped on the Sea Horno Lieutenant George Thomas Commander for the Andaman Islands.
I have the honor to be &ca
(Signed) William Golding Commissary of Stores, Fort William 10th Tobruary 1796.
