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health ; and for these I procured quarters, at the 

 rate of thirty stivers, or half a crown, per day, for 

 which they were provided with victuals, drink, and 

 lodging. 



We now went to work to supply all our defects. 

 For this purpose, by permission, we erected a tent 

 on shore, to which we sent our casks and sails to be 

 repaired. We also struck the yards and topmasts, 

 in order to overhaul the rigging, which we found in 

 so bad a condition, that almost every thing, except 

 the standing rigging, was obliged to be replaced with 

 new ; and that was purchased at a most exorbitant 

 price. In the article of naval stores, the Dutch here, 

 as well as at Batavia, take a shameful advantage of 

 the distress of foreigners. 



That our rigging, sails, &c. should be worn out, 

 will not be wondered at, when it is known, that, dur- 

 ing this circumnavigation of the globe, that is, from 

 our leaving this place, to our return to it again, we 

 had sailed no less than twenty thousand leagues ; an 

 extent of voyage, nearly equal to three times the equa- 

 torial circumference of the earth, and which, I appre- 

 hend, was never sailed by any ship in the same space of 

 time before. And yet, in all this great run, which 

 had been made in all latitudes between 9° and 71°, 

 we sprung neither low-masts, top-mast, lower nor 

 top-sail yard, nor so much as broke a lower or top- 

 mast shroud ; which, with the great care and abilities 

 of my officers, must be owing to the good properties 

 of our ship. 



One of the French ships which were at anchor 

 in the bay, was the Ajax Indiaman, bound to 

 Pondicherry, commanded by Captain Crozet. He 

 had been second in command with Captain Morion, 

 who sailed from this place with two ships, in March, 

 1772, as hath been already mentioned. Instead of 

 going from hence to America, as was said, he stood 

 away for New Zealand \ where, in the Bay of Isles, 



