(* Bernard Moses, Spanish Rule in America, 289.) Now Bass, as already related, had brought out to Sydney in the Venus a large quantity of unsaleable merchandise.

He could not dispose of it under conditions of glut.

He had hoped that the Governor would take the cargo into the Government store and let it be sold even at a 50 per cent reduction.

But King declined to permit that to be done.

Here, then, was a singularly courageous man, fond of daring enterprises, in command of a good ship, with an unsaleable cargo on his hands.