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height, and did not appear to be iii the least dan- 

 ger. At the same time Ickongoque began to com- 

 plain. We sailed for Ireland on the twenty-eighth, 

 bnt the wind taking us ahead when we got off the 

 Bill of Portland, we put back and anchored in Port- 

 land Road. Tooklavinia now was taken ill. 



At two o'clock in the morning of the twenty- 

 nihth, we weighed again, and proceeded down the 

 channel with a fair wind and pleasant weather; 

 still in hopes of arriving in sufficient time for my 

 business; but at ten o'clock, so dreadful a stench 

 pervaded the whole vessel, all the Indians being 

 now ill, that three of the ship's crew now were 

 seized with a fever, and we had reason to expect, 

 that a pestilential disorder would soon attack us 

 all. I therefore ordered captain Monday to carry 

 the vessel into Plymouth, although I foresaw that 

 measure would prove an immense loss to me, by 

 the ruin of my voyage, and we came to an anchor 

 in Catwater the next afternoon at two o'clock. I 

 went on shore immediately, and made a personal 

 application to Earl Cornwallis, Admiral Spry, and 

 the Mayor of Plymouth, for an house to put the 

 Indians in, but could not succeed. 



Monday, May 31, 1773. Ickeuna died this morn- 

 ing, Caubvick had a violent fever on her, and the 

 rest were extremely ill. In the evening I bar- 

 gained for a house at Stonehouse, for two guineas 

 and a half per week. At four o'clock the next 

 morning we weighed and removed the vessel to 

 Stonehouse Pool. I got the Indians on shore un- 

 mediately, and Ickcongoque died that night. 



