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However , the _ Venus _ arrived there safely , and Captain Chace duly delivered his despatches to Lieutenant House , the Marine officer in charge . Feeling sure that there was now no further danger to be apprehended , he spent the night with an old shipmate , the captain of the schooner _ Governor Hunter _ . After breakfast , accompanied by Mr House , he got into his boat and set out for his ship . He had left instructions with the mate to get up anchor at six o'clock and come up the river , and about seven o'clock , as he and Mr House were being pulled towards her in the boat , they saw that she was under weigh , and coming up . ` There 's not much use in us going down , as your ship is coming up , Chace , ' said Mr House . ` Let us go ashore here in this cove and wait for her . ' The master agreed to this , and the boat turned into a little sandy-beached cove , where they lost sight of the ship , which , with the light breeze then blowing , would not pass abreast of the cove for another hour .