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the cabins, and even there, they are compelled 

 to clofe-ftowage to make room for them all. 



On the upper deck the foldiers are ftill 

 more thickly fpread, they lie down without 

 any other covering than their clothes of the 

 day, ufing the arm, or the knapfack as a piU 

 low : and fo well do they flow that not a foot 

 can find place between them. Happily the 

 wind is very favorable, and we are led to be- 

 lieve that wherefoever we are bound the voy- 

 age will not be long. Having the fteady 

 breeze of the trades on her quarter, the (hip 

 is worked almoft wholly by the helm, and we 

 feldom require to fhift the fails — occafional 

 bracing being all that is neceflary. Had the 

 weather been bad and the wind againft us, you 

 will readily imagine the ftate we muft have 

 been in, with fuch a body of men, fick,and ill, 

 and crowded in every quarter of the fhip. 

 Even as it is we have much difficulty in keep- 

 ing thjsm fufficiently clean to preferve them 

 in health. They lie down in their clothes at 

 night, where they have been (landing or fit- 

 ting the whole of the day, and from making 

 the deck at once their fitting bench, their din- 



