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Reafonsfo?^ touching at the Canary Ifles— Precautions for prefei'-ving 
Health — Their admirable Succefs — Sonie Account of the Canaries 
—Fables refpeSting them — Attempt cf a Co7iviB to efcape—De- 
parture, ' • ^ ;'-r ' ■ ' " 
■CHAP, rr^ x-I E chief obje6l propofed by Governor Phillip ia 
V— J ^ touchinsr at Teneriffcj was the obtaining a frefh 
. June 3d, . 
^787- lupply of water and vegetables. It was advifeable alfo 
at this period to give the people fuch advantages and 
refrelhments, for the fake of health, as this place 
v/oiild readily fupply, but which can only be obtained 
on fliore. In this, and every port, the crews, foldiers, 
and convids, vvere indulged with frefli meat, fruit, vege- 
tables, and every thing which could conduce to preferve 
them from the complaints formerly inevitable in long voy- 
ages. The allowance was, to the marines, a pound of bread, 
■ a pound of beef, and a pint cf wine per m^an, daily : 
the convicls had three quarters of a pound of beef, and of 
bread, but no win'e. The fruits obtained here were 
only figs and mulberries, but thefe were plentiful and 
excellent. How fiiccefsfully precautions of every kind, 
tend- 
