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derive any benefit ; and from it we have a very 
abundant supply of a most useful, and very palat- 
able article of diet. All the men are sent on 
shore twice a-week, viz. on Sunday and Thursday, 
to gather it, and what they collect, after being 
mixed with vinegar, is served out to them regu- 
larly.* Notwithstanding every attention has been 
paid to the different seeds that were sown in the 
gardens, I believe that we shall receive but very 
little benefit from their produce, for their growth 
is exceedingly tardy. 
Friday, 30th. — At two o’clock this morning 
departed this life, William Scott, boatswain’s 
mate, who had been ill for some months past, first 
with scurvy, and afterwards with diarrhoea, and 
general debility. He was reckoned a very good 
and quiet man, and I am told an excellent seaman; 
but, unfortunately, it is said that he was rather 
addicted to spirits. Whether a consciousness of 
this failing preyed on his mind or not, I cannot 
pretend to say ; but he was often observed to be 
very low-spirited, which amounted sometimes, 
during his illness, to hypochondriacism. 
Sunday, July 2d.— Immediately after divine 
service this forenoon, his body was taken on shore, 
and interred on a plain between two and three 
hundred yards from the beach. Almost the whole 
of the officers and men of both ships attended on 
* As a considerable quantity of the lemon-juice has been, 
as I have already remarked, destroyed by the frost during the 
winter, it has, of course become an object of importance to 
economise what remains, and as the sorrel that is gathered is 
considered to be a good substitute for it, the serving of it out 
has for the present been suspended. 
