298 cook's first voyage dec. 



fell a sacrifice to the unwholesome, stagnant, putrid 

 air of the country, and he who, from his birth, had 

 been used to subsist chiefly upon vegetable food, 

 particularly ripe fruit, soon contracted all the dis- 

 orders that are incident to a sea life, and would pro- 

 bably have sunk under them before we could have 

 completed our voyage, if we had not been obliged 

 to go to Batavia to refit. 



