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Updated: May 13, 2025
He affirmed also that one of the French officers had pointed out to him on a chart the very place where they intended to settle. The governor took prompt action. He at once fitted out the armed schooner Cumberland the vessel in which Flinders afterwards sailed to Mauritius and placed her under the command of Acting-Lieutenant Robbins.
I should say that I believe a very small proportion of the men were disaffected, and, as on most public outbreaks, the majority were dictated to by a few desperate and disappointed men. Parker had been shipmate with a considerable number of the Saint Fiorenzo's crew, and they had a great contempt for him. He had been acting-lieutenant in some ship with them, and was dismissed for drunkenness.
It is to be noticed that the flag of the Republic had not been erected over the tents of the visitors, nor anywhere on the island. Otherwise, we may suppose, Acting-Lieutenant Robbins would have gone a step further and pulled it down; and what would have happened then we can but surmise.
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