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liai)py iu the prospect of carrying tlieni back, ap- 

 parently in perfect health. 



Tuesday, May 11, 1773. We passed through the 

 Downs this evening, when I discharged the pilot, 

 and went to sea. 



Th ursday, May 13, 1773. The pleasing prospects 

 which I so lately had before me were of very short 

 duration; for this evening as Caubvick was going to 

 bed, she complained of great sickness at her stom- 

 acli, had a very bad night, and daily grew w^orse. 

 On my arrival at L^nnmington on the thirteenth, 

 and consulting a surgeon there, (for my own, I 

 found, was utterly ignorant of her complaint) he 

 declared her malady to be the small-pox: which 

 had nearly tlie same effect on me, as if he had pro- 

 nounced my sentence of death. As it was vain to 

 expect that the rest should escaj^e the infection, 

 medicines were immediately given to prepare 

 them for it; and I thought it a fortunate circum- 

 stance, that an opportunity offered for doing it.^ 



Having taken on board forty tons of salt, and 

 some other goods, I sailed from thence on tlu^ 

 eighteenth, and arrived in AVeymoutli Roads a 

 few hours after. There I received on board some 

 nets and other goods from Bridport, and had tlie 

 pleasure to find Caubvick go on as well as pos- 

 silde; her disorder being of the mild kind. I took 

 the others out in the l)oat every day, and we went 

 to the Bill of Portland to shoot niuri's.^ 



On the twenty-second Caub\i<'k tnnied the 



* Vaccination wafl first practised by .Iciincr in 17%. 

 ' Murre or common RuiH^'niot, Vrui troille. 



