The vessel touched at the Cape; set sail again, and was never afterwards heard of.
It is supposed that she was either burnt at sea, or driven northward by a storm and wrecked on the Madagascar coast.

Falconer intended to have prefixed some complimentary lines to Mr.Murray to the third edition of "The Shipwreck," but they were omitted in the hurry of leaving London and England for India.
Notwithstanding the failure of MacMurray to obtain the aid of Falconer in his partnership, he completed alone his contract with Mr.Sandby.

His father at Edinburgh supplied him with the necessary capital, and he began the bookselling business in November 1768.

He dropped the prefix "Mac" from his surname; put a ship in full sail at the head of his invoices; and announced himself to the public in the following terms: "John Murray (successor to Mr.Sandby), Bookseller and Stationer, at No.
32, over against St.Dunstan's Church, in Fleet Street, London, sells all new Books and Publications.

Fits up Public or Private Libraries in the neatest manner with Books of the choicest Editions, the best Print, and the richest Bindings.