188 ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY [November, 



de Janeiro and the Cape of Good Hope. She had on board when (he 

 firft failed thirty female and ten male convids ; but being obliged to 

 put back to Spithead, eight of her ten male convids found means to 

 make their efcape. 



Her cargo was found to have fuffered confiderahly by the bad wea- 

 ther which fhe had experienced ; the flour in particular, an article 

 which could at no time bear any diminution in that country, was 

 much damaged. The convicts had for a long time been nearly as 

 much diftrefled for utenfils to drefs their provifions, as they had been 

 for the provifions to drefs; and they had now the mortification to 

 find, that of the fmall fupply of iron pots which had been put on 

 board, a great part were either broken or cracked, having been literally 

 flowed among the provifion cafks in the hold. 



There had arrived in this fhip three thoufand eight hundred and 

 feventy ounces of filver, in dollars. This remittance was fent out 

 for the purpofe of paying fuch fums as were due to the different arti- 

 ficers who had been employed in that country, as well as the fuper- 

 intendants, who had experienced much inconvenience from not re- 

 ceiving their falaries on the fpot ; and indeed the want of public mo- 

 ney had been greatly felt by every one in the colony. In this veffel 

 a naval agent had been fent out, to prevent delays on the paffage, and 

 to fee that the convids were not defrauded or opprerTed ; and likewife 

 a medical gentleman for the exprefs purpofe of attending to fuch con- 

 vids as might be ill during the voyage ; fo extremely folicitous were 

 the members of adminiftration to guard againft the evils which had 

 befallen thefe unfortunate people in former paflages. 



A brick hofpital, confifting of two wards, was finifhed during the 

 month of November, and the fick removed to it. The fpot for this 

 building was at fome diftance from the principal ftreet of the town, 

 and convenient to the water; and, to prevent any improper commu- 

 nication with the other convids, a fpace was to be inclofed and paled 

 in round the hofpital, in which the fick would have every neceflary 

 benefit from air and exercife. At the other fettlement they had 



