6i. 



THE BEE, 



OR, 



LITER ART IVEEKLY INTELLIGENCZR, 



FOR 



WiDXESDAT, February 15. 1792. 



A PROPOSAL 

 Fur a better m ode qfvictuai/ing the navy in warm climates, ap- 

 plicable also to Eojt India jlnpi, and containing many hints for 



curing provisions in Europe, by captain Forrest of the navy *. 

 vVhen I consider the uncomfortable manner in 

 ■which seamen on board men of war often live in India, 

 where I have resided many years, and have made above 

 twenty country voyages, compared with the man- 

 ner in which the same expence the nation is at to 

 maintain them might enable them to live, I hope 

 the following remarks will be attended to. 



I chiefly condemn the improper mode of preser- 

 ving beef and pork, not only in East India, but in 

 Europe, and what immediately foUoWs that impro- 

 per mode, and seems inseparable from it, and linked 

 to it, the improper mode of drefsing the same, sim- 

 ply boiling, how widely different from the manner 

 in which the country black sailors, called lascars, 

 Jive in India, many of whom are daily seen in the 

 streets of London. 



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* Thi» important paper was communicated to the EJitor, by a gentle- 

 »»n who i. ever attentivi: to promutc tRc -t/iAhti of his country. 



