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Bounty Logbook Remarks, Jul. 21-22, 1789

Remarks at Coupang Tuesday 21st and Wednesday 22nd July 1789

Fresh Winds at ESE and Fair Weather. Employed Caulking and other duties on board the Resource.

On the 21st I was employed regulating the Funeral of Mr. Nelson. The order of which was as follows. At 5 oClock The Corps carried by 12 Soldiers in black preceded by the Minister. Next followed myself and Second Governor, then ten Gentlemen of the Town and Officers of the Ships and after them my own Officers and People.

After reading our burial Service the Body was interred behind the Chappel in the Ground appropriated to the Europeans of the Town.

I was sorry to find I could get no Tomb Stone at this place, that a Stranger might have Contemplated that a man lay there who had surmounted every calamity and distress for eight and forty days across a dangerous Sea with Fortitude and health; but that at last after surmounting every difficulty, and in the midst of his humble gratitude and joy to Almighty God for his preservation; he paid this debt which human weakness would have beleived was to have been at a more distant period.

On Wednesday Prayers were performed at the Chappel for the Recovery of the Governor who now lies dangerously Ill.

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