102 



ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY 



[June, 



convi&s who bad too much principle to enter into it. This nece£- 

 farily, on board that fhip, occafioned much future circumfpe&ion ; 

 but Captain Marmall's humanity considerably leflened the feverity 

 which the infurgents might naturally have expected. On board the 

 other mips, the mailers, who had the entire diredion of the prifoners, 

 never fuffered them to be at large on deck, and but few at a time 

 were permitted there. This confequently gave birth to many difeafes. 

 It was faid that on board the Neptune feveral had died in irons ; . and 

 what added to the horror of fuch a circumftance was, that their deaths 

 were concealed, for the purpofe of (haring their allowance of provi- 

 fions, until chance, and the offenfivenefs of a corpfe, directed the fur- 

 geon, or fome one who had authority in the fhip, to the fpot where 

 it lay* 



A contract had been entered into by Government with MelTrs. Cal- 

 vert, Camden, and King, merchants, of London, for the tranfporting 

 of one thoufand -convi&s, and Government engaged to pay 17L 7s. 6d. 

 per head for every convict they embarked. This fum being as well 

 for their provifions as for their tranfportation, no intereft for their 

 prefervation was created in the owners, and the dead were more pro- 

 fitable (if profit alone was confulted by them, and the credit of their 

 houfe was not at flake) than the living. The following accounts of the 

 Slumbers who died on board each fhip were given in by the mailers : 



Men. Women. Children. 

 On board the Lady Juliana o 5 2 



The Surprife 42 o o 



The Scarborough 68 o o 



The Neptune 151 11 2 



Total 261 16 



All poflible expedition was ufed to get the fick on fhore ; for even 

 while they remained on board many died. 



Parties were immediately fent into the woods, to colled the acid 

 berry of the country, which for its extreme acetofity was deemed by 



the 



