Daedalus arrives in Nootka Sound in August,…

August 1792 CE

Daedalus arrives in Nootka Sound in August, while Vancouver is exploring in small boats to the north, and dispatches the brig HMS Venus with the news that her Captain, Richard Hergest, and William Gooch, sent as astronomer for the expedition, had been murdered on Oahu.

Vancouver and Whidbey share astronomer duties, which will later lead to friction over pay.

On August 11, the expedition had sailed south, reaching Nootka Sound on August 28, where they exchange friendly thirteen-gun salutes with a Spanish frigate commanded by Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra.

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