CHAPTER XX.
Lieutenant Watts's Narrative of the Return of the Lady Penrhyn Transport; containing an Account of the Death of Omai, and other interesting Particulars at Otaheite.
5 May 1788-17 May 1788 The Lady Penrhyn, Capt.

Sever, left Port Jackson on the 5th of May, 1788.
In the evening of the 7th, imagining they saw a fire on shore, they sounded, but found no bottom with ninety fathoms of line.

By their observation at noon, on the 9th, they found a current had set the vessel eighty miles to the southward since their leaving Port Jackson.

The scurvy began already to make its appearance amongst them; one man was rendered unfit for duty, and several others complained very much.

The weather in general was squally, with thunder, lightning, and rain.