9 o ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY" [April, 



Pork 23,851 pounds. 



Beef 1,280 ditto. 



Rice 24,455 ditto. 



Peafe 17 bulhels. 



Flour 56,884 pounds. 



Bifcuit 1,924 ditto. 

 The duration of the Supply's voyage was generally expected to be 

 fix months ; a period at which, if no relief arrived in the mean time 

 from England, they would be found, even at the prefent miferable 

 allowance, without fait provifions, rice, and peafe. 



The Governor, from a motive that did him immortal honour, in 

 this feafon of general diftrefs, gave up three hundred weight of flour 

 which was his Excellency's private property ; declaring, that he wifhed 

 not to fee any more at his table than the ration which was received 

 in common from the public (tore, without any diftin&ion of perfons ; 

 and to this refolution he rigidly adhered, wifhing that if a convicT 

 complained, he might fee that want was not unfelt even at Govern- 

 ment-houfe. 



On the 20th of April, the following was the ration iflued from the 

 public ftore to each man for feven days : 



Flour 2f pounds. 

 Rice 2 pounds. 

 Pork 2 pounds. 

 Was this a ration for a labouring man ? The two pounds of pork, 

 when boiled, from the length of time that it had been in /lore, 

 fhrunk away to nearly nothing ; and, when divided, barely afforded 

 three or four morfels. 



The inevitable confequence of this fcarcity of provifions enfued ; 

 labour flood nearly fufpended for want of energy to proceed ; and the 

 countenances of the people plainly befpoke the hardfhips which they 

 underwent. The convids, however, were employed for the public in 

 the forenoon ; and fuch labour was obtained from them as their fitua- 



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