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name fifty instances in support of this remark. Many 

 of my people, officers as well as seamen, at first dis- 

 liked celery, scurvy-grass, &c, being boiled in the 

 peas and wheat ; and some refused to eat it ; but as 

 this had no effect on my conduct, this obstinate kind 

 of prejudice, by little and little, wore off; they 

 began to like it as well as the others, and now, I 

 believ r e, there was hardly a man in the ship that did 

 not attribute our being so free from the scurvy, to 

 the beer and vegetables we made use of at New 

 Zealand ; after this, I seldom found it necessary to 

 order any of my people to gather vegetables, when- 

 ever we came where any were to be got, and if 

 scarce, happy was he who could lay hold on them 

 first. I appointed one of my seamen to be cook of 

 the Adventure, and wrote to Captain Furneaux, 

 desiring him to make use of every method in his 

 power to stop the spreading of the disease amongst 

 his people, and proposing such as I thought might 

 tend towards it ; but I afterwards found all this un- 

 necessary, as every method had been used they could 

 think of. 



The wind continued in the N. W. quarter, and 

 blew fresh, at times, attended with rain ; with which 

 we stood to the N. E. On the 1st of August, at 

 noon, we were in the latitude of 25 1', longitude 

 134 6' west, and had a great hollow swell from N. W. 

 The situation we were now in, was nearly the same 

 that Captain Cartaret assigns for Pitcairn's Island, 

 discovered by him in 1767* We therefore looked 

 well out for it ; but saw nothing. According to the 

 longitude in which he has placed it, we must have 

 passed about fifteen leagues to the west of it. But 

 as this was uncertain, I did not think it prudent, con- 

 sidering the situation of the Adventure's people, to 

 lose any time in looking for it. A sight of it would, 

 however, have been of use in verifying or correcting, 

 not only the longitude of this isle, but of the others 

 that Captain Cartaret discovered in this neighbour 



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