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increased, with antiscorbutics of various kinds ; 

 their bedding was shaken and purified ; they 

 were never suffered to remain below in damp 

 clothes ; the deck was free from anything like 

 a close atmosphere ; persons were appointed to 

 see them take sufficient exercise for health three 

 times a day ; and the men themselves were as 

 cheerful as the temperament of each permitted. 

 As a still further precaution, chloride of lime 

 was put into the pump-well, which had never 

 more than six, and generally less than three 

 inches in it. We may be said, indeed, to have 

 brought the disheartening malady with us in the 

 person of one of the marines, who must have 

 been strongly predisposed to the complaint, as 

 he showed symptoms of it so early as a fortnight 

 or three weeks after the expenditure of our live 

 stock. Anderson, though improved in health, 

 Was unable to quit his bed, and poor Mr. Donald- 

 son lay in a state of drowsy torpor, from which 

 the medical officers had great difficulty to rouse 

 him. He scarcely took any sustenance ; and 

 we could not contemplate the slow but marked 

 change which was going on without gloomy 

 apprehensions. These fears were but too soon 

 verified ; for after another day of lethargy, and 

 beckoning away with his hand any attempt to 

 give him nourishment, he may be said to have 

 slumbered to death at the hour of six o'clock on 



