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derate breezes from the South Eaft. This day five of my ^ ^^^^ ^• 

 people, after eating a hearty dinner of bonettas, which had ' — ;; — ' 

 been caught while at Saint Helena, and falted and hung June. 

 up for fea-ftore, were in about an hour afterwards taken * "^ ' ^' 

 very ill of a violent pain in the head, an eruption on the 

 fkin, and every part considerably fwelled and inflamed ; 

 thefe alarming appearances in a great raeafure fubfided after 

 their drinking a little fweet oil, and towards the evening 

 they were ail nearly recovered. In confequence of thofe 

 fifh having fuch a poifonous efFed:, I ordered all that re- 

 mained to be thrown over-board. 



From this time to the 2 2d Auguft afforded little variety, Fndlf\z. 

 when we made the Ifle of Wight ; and on the 24th came Sunday 24. 

 to anchor in Margate Roads ; the people all in high 

 fpirits, and rejoiced to fee their native fhore again. I 

 cannot take leave of my readers without doing juftice to 

 the tradefmen that fitted us out with provifions ; parti- 

 cularly Mr. Stevens, who fupplied us with the very beft of 

 every kind ; and Mefifrs. Scale and Waters, a puncheon of 

 whofe bread I opened in the river, and found it equally 

 good as when firft put on board. 



THE grand objedl of the Voyage, of which an account 

 is given in the preceding flieets, being to trade for furs, 

 with an expectation , no doubt, of gaining more than 

 common profits, by an undertaking which at once was 

 new, hazardous, and uncertain ; the world will naturally 

 enquire whether fuch expectation has been anfwered ; and 

 more particularly as reports have been induftrioufly propa- 

 gated to the contrary. 



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