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two pounds a week, but I increased or diminished 

 their allowance as I thought proper. 



Salted cabbage is cabbage cut to pieces, and 

 salted down in casks, which will preserve it a long 

 time. 



Portable broth is so well known, that it needs no 

 description. We were supplied with it both for the 

 sick and w T ell, and it was exceedingly beneficial. 



Saloup, and rob of lemons and oranges, were for 

 the sick and scorbutic only, and wholly under the 

 surgeon's care. 



Marmalade of carrots is the juice of yellow car- 

 rots inspissated till it is of the thickness of fluid 

 honey, or treacle, which last it resembles both in 

 taste and colour. It w T as recommended by Baron 

 Storsch, of Berlin, as a very great antiscorbutic ; but 

 we did not find that it had much of this quality. 



For the inspissated juice of wort, and beer, we were 

 indebted to Mr. Pelham, secretary to the commis- 

 sioners of the Victualling Office. This gentleman, 

 some years ago, considered that if the juice of malt, 

 either as beer or wort, was inspissated by evaporation, 

 it was probable this inspissated juice would keep 

 good at sea ; and, if so, a supply of beer might be 

 had at any time, by mixing it with water. Mr. 

 Pelham made several experiments, which succeeded 

 so well, that the commissioners caused thirty-one 

 half-barrels of this juice to be prepared, and 

 sent out with our ships for trial ; nineteen on board 

 the Resolution, and the remainder on board the Ad- 

 venture. The success of the experiments will be 

 mentioned in the narrative, in the order they were 

 made. 



The frame of a small vessel, twenty tons burthen, 

 was properly prepared, and put on board each of 

 the ships, to be set up, (if found necessary,) to 

 serve as tenders upon any emergency, or to trans- 

 port the crew in case the ship was lost. 



We were also well provided with fishing-nets, lines, 



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