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•780- Refolution loft but five men by ficknefs, three of whom 

 were in a precarious ftate of health at our departure from 

 England ; the Difcovcry did not lofe a man. An unremitting 

 attention to the regulations eftablifhed by < aptain Cook, 

 with which the world is already acquainted, may be juftly 

 eonfidered as the principal caufe, under the blefling of Di- 

 vine Providence, of this fingular fuccefs. But the baneful 

 effects of fait provifions might perhaps, in the end, have 

 been felr, notwithstanding thefe falutary precautions, if we 

 had not aflifted them, by availing ourfelves of every fubfti- 

 tute, our licuation at various times afforded. Thefe fre- 

 quently confiding of articles, which our people had not been 

 ufcd to confuler as food for men, and being fomctimes ex- 

 ceedingly naufeous, it required the joint aid of perfuafion, 

 authority, and example, to conquer their prejudices and 

 difgufts. 



The preventives we principally relied on were four krout 

 and portable foup. As to the antifcorbutic remedies, with 

 which we were amply fupplicd, we had no opportunity of 

 trying their effects, as there did not appear the flighted 

 fymptoms of the fcurvy, in cither fhip, during the whole 

 voyage. Our malt and hops had alfo been kept as a re- 

 fource, in cafe of actual ficknefs, and on examination at the 

 Cape of Good Hope, were found intircly fpoiled. About 

 the fame time, were opened fome cades of bifcuir, flour, 

 malt, pcafe, oatmeal, and groats, which, by way of expe- 

 riment, had been put up in fmall calks, lined with tin- 

 frail, and found all, except the peafe, in a much better flate, 

 than could have been expected in the ufual manner of 

 package. 



I cannot neglect this opportunity of recommending to the 

 confidcration of Government, the nccdlity of allowing a-fulli- 



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