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boiled down for oil, which was become a necessary 

 article, our candles having long since been expended. 

 The cooper was fully engaged in his department : 

 and in this manner were both ships' companies em- 

 ployed in their several occupations, till Saturday 

 afternoon, which was given up to all our men, except 

 the carpenters, for the purpose of washing their linen 

 and getting their clothes in some little order, that 

 they might make a decent appearance on Sunday. 



In the afternoon of that day, we paid the last 

 offices to Captain Clerke. The officers and men of 

 both ships walked in procession to the grave, whilst 

 the ships fired minute-guns ; and the service being 

 ended, the marines fired three vollies. He was 

 interred under a tree, which stands on rising ground, 

 in the valley to the north side of the harbour, where 

 the hospital and store-houses are situated ;• Captain 

 Gore having judged this situation most agreeable to 

 the last wishes of the deceased, for the reasons above- 

 mentioned ; and the priest of Paratounca having 

 pointed out a spot for his grave, which, he said, 

 would be as near as he could guess, in the centre of 

 the new church. This reverend pastor walked in 

 the procession, along with the gentleman who read 

 the service ; and all the Russians in the garrison 

 were assembled, and attended with great respect and 

 solemnity. 



On the 30th, the different parties returned to their 

 respective employments, as mentioned in the course 

 of the preceding week; and on the 2d of September, 

 the carpenters having shifted the rotten and damaged 

 planks, and repaired and calked the sheathing of 

 the larboard bow, proceeded to rip off the sheathing 

 that had been injured by the ice, from the starboard 

 side. Here, again, they discovered four feet of a 

 plank, in the third strake under the wale, so shaken, 

 as to make it necessary to be replaced. This was 

 accordingly done, and the sheathing repaired on the 

 3d. In the afternoon of the same day, we got on 



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