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tounca, as soon as he heard of the infirm state he 

 was in, supplied him every day with bread, milk, 

 fresh butter, and fowls, though his house was sixteen 

 miles from the harbour where we lay. 



On our first arrival, we found the Russian hospital, 

 which is near the town of St. Peter and St. Paul, in 

 a condition truly deplorable. All the soldiers were, 

 more or less, affected by the scurvy, and a great 

 many in the last stage of that disorder. The rest of 

 the Russian inhabitants were also in the same condi- 

 tion ; and we particularly remarked that our friend 

 the serjeant, by making too free with the spirits we 

 gave him, had brought on himself in the course of a 

 few days, some of the most alarming symptoms of 

 that malady. In this lamentable state, Captain 

 Clerke put them all uuder the care of our surgeons, 

 and ordered a supply of sour krout, and malt for 

 wort, to be furnished for their use. It was astonish- 

 ing to observe the alteration in the figures of almost 

 every person we met on our return from Bolcheretsk ; 

 and I was informed by our surgeons that they attri- 

 buted their speedy recovery principally to the effects 

 of the sweet wort. 



On the 1st of June we got on board two hundred 

 and fifty poods, or nine thousand pounds' weight of 

 rye flour, with which we were supplied from the 

 stores of St. Peter and St. Paul's, and the Discovery 

 had a proportional quantity. The men were imme- 

 diately put on full allowance of bread, which they 

 had not been indulged in since our leaving the Cape 

 of Good Hope. The same day our watering was 

 completed, having got on board sixty-five tons. 



On the 4th we had fresh breezes and hard rain, 

 which disappointed us in our design of dressing the 

 ships, and obliged us to content ourselves with firing 

 twenty-one guns in honour of the day, and celebrat- 

 ing it in other respects in the best manner we were 

 able. Port, who was left with us on account of his 

 skill in languages, behaved himself with so much 



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