[4] A letter dated Cape of Good Hope, 5 July 1821, reported that Stedcombe, Cornell, master, had taken the cargo of African for Batavia.

[3] An early report had Stedcombe foundering on passage from London for Tasmania, after leaving part of her cargo at Melville Island.

[8] It turned out that the local inhabitants at Timor Laut had attacked Stedcombe in 1825, killing all but two boys that they then kept as slaves.

At Kupang she encountered HMS Lady Nelson, which too had arrived there from Melville Island to purchase food supplies for the settlement.

[12] In a letter dated 19 May 1825, Barlow[clarification needed] wrote 'his schooner [Stedcombe] left this port four days after Johns' departure [in Lady Nelson], in charge of his Chief Mate, neither have returned since.