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A VOYAGE TO THE 



CHAP 

 X. 



From this time to the 12th of April we kept our courfe 

 for the coaft ; latitude 5 2° 46' North. Both fhips companies 

 April! were very well, except the carpenter of the Queen Char- 

 Thiirfdayi2. j^j.^^^ ^j^q j-^g^^ becu a long time troubled with a lingering 



complaint ; and Richard Greenhult, one of my quarter- 

 mafters, who had been very ill at the iflands, had reco- 

 vered amazingly, and was now out of danger. 



The method of brewing the fweet root having already 

 been taken notice of, at this time I fhall only obferve, 

 that three quarts of molaffes were put into fix gallons of 

 beer, in addition to a pint of effence of malt ; and after 

 being a fhort time in bottles, it was nothing inferior to 

 the fineft cyder. Richard Greenhult had a bottle given 

 him daily, and it was found of infinite fervice to him ; 

 indeed its good effedts were almoft inftantaneous ; and it 

 certainly is a moft excellent and valuable medicine ; for 

 the poor man was fo reduced with an almoft continual 

 fpitting and vomiting of blood, that at one time my fur- 

 geon was of opinion he could not live many days. 



We kept ftanding to the North Wefl, with frefli breezes 

 Monday i6, in the Southcm and Weftern boards. On the 1 6th, the 

 water being much coloured, we tried for foundings, but 

 got no bottom with 140 fathoms of line. Our latitude 

 at that time was 58° 10' North, and 147° 18'^ longitude. 

 In our laft paflage to the coaft, in nearly the fame latitude, 

 and 2° 1 5^ longitude to the Weftward of our prefent fitu- 

 ation, we ftruck foundings in feventy fathoms water, 

 which inclines me to think, that after getting to the Eaft- 

 ward of that longitude, though in the fame latitude, the 



water 



