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A VOYAGE TO 



1778. 



Oaober. 



Saturday 3. 



Notwithftanding this, fo improvident a creature is an Eng- 

 lifli failor, that they were as profufe in making their bar- 

 gains, as if we had now arrived at a port in Virginia ; by 

 which means, in lefs than eight and forty hours, the value 



of this article of barter was lowered above a thoufand 

 per cent. 



At one o'clock in the afternoon of the 3d, we anchored 

 in Samganoodha Harbour ; and the next morning, the car- 

 penters of both fliips were fet to work to rip off the fheath- 

 ing of and under the wale, on the ftarboard fide abaft. 

 Many of the feams were found quite open ; fo that it was 

 110 wonder that fo much water had found its way into the 

 fliip. While we lay here, we cleared the fifli and fpirit 

 rooms, and the after-hold ; difpofing things in fuch a man- 

 ner, that in cafe we fliould happen to have any more leaks 

 of the fame nature, the water might find its way to the 

 pumps. And befides this work, and completing our water, 

 we cleared the fore-hold to the very bottom, and took in a 

 quantity of ballaft. 



The vegetables which we had met with, when we were 

 here before, were now moflly in a ftate of decay; fo that 

 we were but little benefited by the great quantities of ber- 

 ries every where found afliorc. In order to avail ourfelvcs 

 as mucli as pofTible of this ufeful rcfrcllimenr, one third 

 of the people, by turns, had leave to go and pick them. 

 Confiderable quantities of them were alfo procured from the 

 natives. If there were any feeds of the fcurvy, in cither 

 fliip, thcfe berries, and the ufe of fpruce beer, which 

 they had to drink every other day, clfcdually eradicated 

 iliem. 



We 



