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Some of our people beginning to have symptoms 

 of the scurvy, the surgeons began to give them fresh 

 wort every day, made from the malt we had on 

 board for that purpose. One man in particular was 

 highly scorbutic ; and yet he had been taking of the 

 rob of lemon and orange for some time, without 

 being benefited thereby. On the other hand, 

 Captain Furneaux told me, that he had two men who, 

 though far gone in this disease, were now in a man- 

 ner entirely cured of it. 



We continued standing to the eastward till eight 

 o'clock in the morning of the 21st ; when, being 

 in the latitude of 53 50', and longitude 29 24' 

 east, we hauled to the south with the wind at 

 west, a fresh gale and hazy, with snow. In the 

 evening the wind fell, and the weather cleared up, 

 so as that we could see a few leagues round us ; 

 being in the latitude of 54 43' south, longitude 29 

 30' east. 



At ten o'clock, seeing many islands of ice ahead, 

 and the weather coming on foggy, with snow, we 

 wore and stood to the northward, till three in the 

 morning, when we stood again to the south. At 

 eight, the weather cleared up, and the wind came to 

 W. S. W. with which we made all the sail we could 

 to the south ; having never less than ten or twelve 

 islands of ice in sight. 



Next day we had the wind at S. W. and S. S. W. 

 a gentle gale, with now and then showers of snow and 

 hail. In the morning, being in the latitude of 55 

 20' south, and longitude 31 30' east, we hoisted out 

 a boat to see if there was any current ; but found 

 none. Mr. Forster, who went in the boat, shot some 

 of the small grey birds before mentioned, which were 

 of the peterel tribe, and about the size of a small 

 pigeon. Their back, and upper side of their wings, 

 their feet and bills, are of a blue grey colour. Their 

 bellies, and under side of their wings, are white, a 



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