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310 WltECK OP THE DODDINGTON
stand, and on that account was supplied with
a horse. In four days he arrived at Femam-
buc, where, from different naval and military
officers, he met with the utmost attention
and consideration : he and all his companions
got a passage to Europe in the fleet.
Lieutenant de la Fond sailed on the 5th ot
October, and reached Lisbon in safety on the
17th of December; thence he procured a pas¬
sage to Morkix, where having rested a few
days to recruit his strength, he repaired to
Port L’Orient, with his health greatly injured
by the calamities he had suffered, and re¬
duced to a state of poverty, having, after
twenty-eight years service, lost all he had in
the world.
By this deplorable catastrophe, nearly three
hundred persons perished.
WRECK OF THE DODDINGTON EAST INDIAMAN,
ON A ROCK DT THE INDIAN OCEAN, 17TH JULT, 1755.
The Doddington, Captain Samson, sailed
from the Downs, 23d April, 1755, in com¬
pany with the Pelham, the Houghton, the
Streatham, and the Edgecourt, all in the ser¬
vice of the East India Company. In about