1824
January 1st-3rd – On the morning of the
New Year, I had the gratification of seeing the rocky shores of
Cornwall and with a continued steady wind came to an anchorage off
Dover on Saturday morning.
4th-10th, [January, 1824] – Gained the
Downs on Sunday evening, where we lay becalmed for two days. Entered
the river [Thames] on Wednesday evening, and had the pleasure of
arriving safe at London on Friday morning having had a highly
interesting journey.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ That is a very brisk passage across the North Atlantic in mid-winter, only three weeks from setting sail to sight-of-land at Cornwall, although it's another ten days before he disembarks in London.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ That is a very brisk passage across the North Atlantic in mid-winter, only three weeks from setting sail to sight-of-land at Cornwall, although it's another ten days before he disembarks in London.
And
what of the ducks? Last heard of being seasick just out of New York I
was of the view that Douglas ate them, along with the pigeons and
quail. Not so, although it didn't end well for the pigeons. In a
letter to Clinton, Douglas laments that he “most stupidly had put
them in the same cage” and they had fought each other to death.
But the quail and ducks seem to have survived and went to the Earl of
Liverpool while the deceased pigeons went to anatomist Joshua Brooks
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