^^2 onmctualUng the navy, ^c, Feb. i^. 



I have done much the same at sea, with a kind of pea, 

 called doll, or gram, in India. I steeped the pease in 

 ■water until thej swelled, and then put them into a 

 box, upon a layer of earth, then another layer of earth, 

 and another of pease ; in a few, days according as the 

 weather was moist or dry, they were sprouted, and 

 fit to. be curried, or stewed, the same mode was re- 

 peated and succeeded. 



T am confident a cafk maybe filled in this manner with 

 alternate layers of pease, with beans, or any other pro- 

 per seed, and mould ; and in three or four days give 

 a large quantity of wholesome vegetable, highly an- 

 tiscorbutic. The same operation may be repeated 

 with the same callus, and same earth, to great advan- 

 tage ; the calks headed, up, may be put away for the 

 time. Pofsibly a vegetable, so much in infancy, if I 

 may so speak, stewed with such meat, may farther ex- 

 tract its salt. 



Care ftiould be taken to proyide our seamen in In- 

 dia with good cargo rice ; and to let it be well clean- 

 ed before it is boiled, there is no want of hands to do 

 what is so necefsary : This is much neglected. 



Our fleet was so sickly when admiral Hughes last 

 met SufFrein, that eleven hundred men were sent 

 sick on fhore at Madras: Monsieur SufFrein^ when at, 

 Atcheen, in 178a, got not many bullocks, but plenty ol 

 TCgejables. The French deal more in stews than wtfj 

 do, which suit better for warm countries. 



The beef and pork salted in Bengal soon grew ran-] 

 ■cid. 



Millions of cocoa rfuts in East India are carrieAl 

 from the Nicobr.y, and Carnicobar islands to Pegu/j 



