Note 3 — Chapter V

The Englishman before mentioned, Charles Washington, told us that this compass was left there about thirty years before, which was the time when captain James Wilson, of the ship Duff, was there. But from circumstances it appeared that he was mistaken as to the time, and that it was one which had belonged to captain Henry Wilson, who was shipwrecked there in the Antelope, in 1783, and of whose voyage and disasters a most interesting and well-known account was published by Mr. Keate. Its preservation for about fifty years is certainly remarkable.—Edit.