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crew on two quarts of water per day. This reduction was 

 now severely ielt, as the weather was extremely hot ; but 

 all seemed reconciled to bear every privation without a 

 murmur. The health of the crew had improved in a re- 

 markable manner since leaving Valparaiso, and at this time 

 we had but two men on the sick list, one affected by chro- 

 nic debility, the other by a pain in the muscles of the neck, 

 but neither disabled from coming to their quarters. Doc- 

 tor Miller, the surgeon of the ship, a very infirm man, who 

 was in a deep consumption when he joined the ship, and 

 whose health had not improved on board her, requested 

 permission to go with his servant on board the Barclay, 

 and there remain, as he believed that a change of water, 

 pure air, and greater tranquillity, would render his situa- 

 tion more tolerable. As the extreme debility of the gen- 

 tleman prevented him from doing his duty on board, 

 and as he was constantly complaining of his sufferings 

 from the confined air of this ship, I was happy he had 

 fallen on an expedient to render his existence more sup- 

 portable, and took the first opportunity of sending him on 

 board the Barclay, where he soon found himself more 

 comfortably situa,ted than amidst the noise and confusion 

 of a man of war, for which his low state of health entirely 

 unsuited him. 



