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and about a month before we reached the Cape of Good Hope, in preser 



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the whole quantity was apprehended to have been 

 confumed ; and the lofs of it was feverely felt by our fliip-mates. 

 However, when we arrived at th-e Cape, and all the hold was 



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cleared, we flill found two cafks, of one of which a part was left^, 



when we arrived at Fayal, in the Weftern illands, in July 1775,- 

 and was given away by Captain Cook, to the Britifh Conful, who' 



relifhed it very much, and it v/as then found to be as good as when 



firfl made in Ocftober, 1771. 



Another falutary food is wheat and oatmeal, for breakfaft -, the 

 wheat being more nourifhing, is certainly preferable to the oatmeal ^ 

 but as the fooins (a kind of acidulous jelly, and found by experi- 

 ment to be very antifeptic) is prepared from the laft article : it wilL 



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always be ranked amongfl the falutary food of a fhip's com- 



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is no doubt while frefh and 



Peafe the common food of failors 

 mncorrupted very falutary 3 however as they abound in phlogiftonj 



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and are not fufficiently mixed and rendered analogous to our alimen- 

 tary vefTels, it would not be amifs to allow fome vinegar to the 

 failors for their peafe-ibup, which by its acidity will corred: this 

 excellent food> and by inteftine fermentation difengage its fixed air^ 



and render it by this means more antifeptic and falubrlous. 



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