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being fliattered by weather, from the mere efFeds of a ^^j^^- 
dreadful and invincible difcrder. 
At five in the morning of the 1 9th, the welcome fight Nov. 19. 
appeared of a boat from the Dutch Commodore, which 
he had humanely laded with refrefliments. She brought 
alfo a boatfwain's mate and tv/elve feamen to affift in re- 
fitting the fliip for fea. The fick were fent on the 20th 
to the hofpital, where feveral of them died, being too 
far gone for any accommodation or fkill to recover. 
From the Bridgewater and Contractor Eaft Indiamen, 
which lay in the road when the Alexander arrived ; and 
from the Raymond, Afia, and Duke of Montrofe, which 
came in a few days after; with the afliftance of a few 
men from the Dutch Commodore, a frefli crew was at 
length made up, in which only four of the original fea- 
men remained, the reft being either dead, or not enough 
recovered to return with the Alexander, when flie failed 
again on the 7 th of December. December 7. 
The remaining part of the voyage was attended with 
few circumftances worthy of notice, and was made in a 
track fufficiently known to all navigators to permit us to 
difpenfe with a minute defcription of it« At the Cape 
they met with Captain Hunter, in the Sirius, who, when 
the Alexander arrived, on the 1 8th of February, 1789, had *^^J"^jJJ' 
"been in Table Bay fix weeks. From him Lieutenant 
F f ? : Shortland 
