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it in my power to add them to another edition, and supply 

 the places of the charts and drawings, of which I have 

 been ungenerously deprived by the enemy. 



1 also gave Mr. King orders to proceed to the United 

 States with the New Zealander, and prepared to sail with 

 the Essex and Essex Junior, with a full supply of pro- 

 visions, leaving an abundance for nine months on board 

 the prizes. 



Massachusett's Bay is one of the finest in the world. 

 It affords safe anchorage, good shelter and landing ; conve- 

 nient watering places, abundance of refreshments, and a 

 welcome and hospitable reception from the natives. It 

 is easy of egress, and not more difficult of access than 

 would be desirable for defence. Light and baffling winds 

 generally make it necessary that large ships should warp 

 into the harbour. It is every where free from danger ; 

 may be easily defended ; and you may choose your 

 depth of water, from four to thirty fathoms, clean, sandy 

 bottom. 



On leaving this place \ had no sick on board my ship 

 my crew had never appeared at any time in better health. 

 1 had as yet met with only one case of the scurvy among 

 them, and this was so extraordinary that I cannot help no- 

 ticing it. It did not appear until a few days before my 

 departure from the island, and although the man had been 

 employed and slept on shore during the whole of my stay, 

 had the most abundant supply of vegetables and fruit, and 

 had not, during the time, ate one meal of salt provisions, 

 still he was so much afflicted with the disease, that I 

 found it necessary to leave him there with scarcely a 

 hope that he will recover. 



This man was about forty years of age, of slender make, 

 and apparently of a lethargic melancholy disposition. 

 He partook of none of the amusements of the rest of the 

 erew, and probably this disposition might have first laid 

 the foundation of a disease which lay lurking in the sys- 

 tem, and for the want of a proper stimulus to the mind, at 

 length shot forth with so much vigour. 



Shortly after leaving the port, a circumstance took 

 place which caused me much sorrow. The Otaheitan I 

 had on board had received a blow from the boatswain's 

 mate, the first probably which he had ever received, as 



