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dark very fast, and the season far sj3ent, a num- 

 ber of our men sick, a putrid fever raging in the 

 vessel, and numbers complaining for want of 

 clothing and with pains in their limbs, which 

 seems to be in this country a general complaint, — 

 the vessel very wet and single-botio^i"?d, with- 

 out being provided for wintering if we iiad been 

 caught with the ice; iu this situa^*?n, I thought 

 it necessary to return, cScc."* He stood on, howr 

 ever, as far as 68° 10', then bore up for the 

 southward; but, with an unaccountable per^ 

 versity, still continued to creep along the shore, 

 among the rocks, and islands, and fields of ice, 

 and did not reach Cape Farewell till the 24th 

 August. On the 4th September he ran into 

 Porcupine harbour, on the coast of Labrador. 

 Here he remained till the 27th, and on the 29th 

 his journal breaks off thus — " Being now taken 

 ill, which illness continued for almost all the 

 passage, and as nothing material occuried during 

 it, I hope their Lordships will excuse tlie short 

 remainder until I give my general thoughts upon 

 the voyage and the hopes of a passage." It does 

 not appear, however, that their Lordships gave 

 him any further trouble on either subject, but 

 superseded him in the command of the Lion, 

 not deeming him a proper person to be sent out 

 on a similar voyage the following year. 



* M.S. Journal. 

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