ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY 



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Obferved to bring in their people extremely healthy. On being quef- 

 tioned as to what methods they took to fecure the health of their Tea- 

 men, they replied, that in general they found exercife the belt preven- 

 tive againft the fcurvy, and confidered idlenefs as the fureft means of 

 introducing it. In addition to exercife, however,, they made frequent 

 life of acids in the diet of their feamen, and of fumigations from to- 

 bacco in their between-decks. Certain it was, that none of the 

 mips which touched there from other ports arrived fo generally 

 healthy. The cargo of the Snow confifted of fpirits, broad-cloth, and 

 a variety of ufeful and defirable articles, adapted to the neeefiities of 

 the country. 



On the laft day of the month the Indifpenfable transport arrived 

 from England, with one hundred and thirty-one female convicts, and 

 a fmall quantity of provifions on board for their confumption. 



In April and the preceding month many people, adults as well as 

 children, were again afflicTed with inflammations in the eyes. Its oc- 

 curring at the fame feafon as the year before, confirmed the medical 

 gentlemen in the opinion formerly given, of the diforder originating 

 in the variable weather. 



Daily experience proved, that thofe people whofe fentences of trant 

 portation had expired were greater evils than the convicTs themfelves, 

 as many of them withdrew from receiving the ration allowed by go* 

 vernment, only to avoid labour and to fubfift by depredations. 



On the nth of May, to the general fatisfadion of the fettle- 

 ment, the Britannia ftorefhip arrived from Calcutta and Madras, on 

 private account ; and one young mare, five cows and one cow-calf, 

 of the Bengal breed, were brought for fale. 



On board this fhip came two officers of the Bengal army, for the 

 purpofe of raifing two hundred recruits from among thofe people who 

 had ferved their refpedive terms of tranfportation. They were to 

 be regularly enlifted and attefted, and were to receive bounty- 

 Bioncy. 



