WHITE'S JOURNAL OF A 
tudes. To this, and to the frequent ufe of oil of tar, which 
was ufed three times a week, and oftener if found neceflary, I 
attribute, in a great degree, the uncommon good health we 
enjoyed. I moft fincerely wifli oil of tar was in more gene- 
ral ufe throughout his Majefty's navy than it is. If it were, 
I am certain that the advantage accruing from it to the health 
of feamen, that truly ufeful and valuable clafs of the commu- 
nity, and for whofe prefervation too much cannot be done, 
would foon manifefl: itfelf. This efficacious remedy won- 
derfully refifts putrefaction, deftroys vermin and infedts 
of every kind ; wherever it is applied overcomes all dif- 
agreeable fmells ; and is in itfelf both agreeable and whole- 
fome. 
In the evening it became calm, with diftant peals of thunder, 
and the moft vivid flaflies of lightning I ever remember. The 
weather was now fo immoderately hot, that the female con- 
vidls, perfedly overcome with it, frequently fainted away; 
and thefe faintings generally terminated in fits. And yet, 
notwithftanding the enervating effects of the atmofpheric 
heat, and the inconveniences they fuffered from it ; fo pre- 
dominant was the warmth of their conftitutions, or the de- 
pravity of their hearts, that the hatches over the place 
where 
