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and fifty-two male convicts, forty-two of whom died cn 
the pafsage, and one hundred and twenty-six were landed 
at the hospital. 
‘ The Scarborough had two officers, and thirty-four sol- 
diers,.and two hundred and fifty-six male convicts, sixty- 
eight of whom died on the pafsage, and ninety-six were 
Janded sick at the hospital. And in spite of every effort 
to relieve the afflicted, one hundred and twenty-four of 
them have since fallen victims to disease. 
‘ It was fhocking to behold the deplorable condition to 
which the poor wretches were reduced by dysentery and 
scurvy. The liberal supply of hospital stores enabled 
us to afsist them with some comforts as well as medicines. 
But the miserable state to which they had been reduced, 
by perpetual confinement below, throughout the palsage, 
put it beyond the power of art to restore many of them. 
‘ The sole, direction of them on board was left to the 
masters of transports, who, either from inclination, or a 
want of knowledge, denied them those indulgences which 
might have been a mean of preserving their health, or at 
least of preventing so great a mortality. 
‘ The Justinian and Surprise were ordered to be cleared 
as fast as pofsible, that they might carry a supply of stores, 
and an additional number of people, to Norfolk island. 
We entertained many doubts with respect to their situation 
at that place ; and, unfortunately for us, we had no prospect 
of making ourselves acquainted with their state before the 
seturn of the supply from Batavia, as the fhips, on clearing 
at,that part, were to proceed immediately to China. 
‘I fhall not attempt to describe the confusion that ex- 
sted at that time in our colony, 
‘The governor now perceived the necefsity of providing 
habitations for the people that had disembarked, as well 
as those that were expected soon to follow. For the 
jittle conveniences that had been raised, chiefly at the ex- 
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