20^ V • A VOYAGE TO 
CHAPTER XIX. 
Appearance of the fciirvy — T'he boats land at one of the Pelew 
Iflands — Account of the Natives who were feen, and conjectures 
concerning them — DifirefJ'es — Tbe Friendfloip cleared and funk — ■ 
Miferable condition of the Alexander when foe reached Batavia. — 
Conclufion, 
CHAP. T TiTHERTO no difficulties had been encountered 
> , but fuch as neceffarily attend the exploring of 
new coails, wherein the anxiety is fully compenfated by 
the fatisfadtion of becoming a difcoverer : but a dread- 
ful fcourge now hung over our navigators, the feverity 
of which cannot eafily be conceived, even by thofe who 
have been placed in iimilar fcenes, fo much did it exceed 
in degree every thing of the fame kind that has been 
Augufi 10, ufually experienced. It was about this time, the loth 
1788. 
of Auguft, that the fcurvy began to make its appearance, 
which, for want of the proper remedies, increafed to a 
malignity that was deftru6live of many lives, rendered 
it neceffary to facrifice one of the fliips, and finally 
reduced 
