VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES. 
where they were confined could not be fuffered to lay off, 
during the night, without a promifcuous intercourfe imme- 
diately taking place between them and the feamen and ma- 
rines. What little wind there was, which was only at 
intervals, continuing adverfe, and the health of thefe wretches 
being ftill endangered by the heat, Captain Phillip, though 
anxious to prevent as much as poflible this intercourfe, gave 
an order, on my reprefenting the neceflity of it, that a 
grating fliould be cut, fo as to admit a fmall wind fail being 
let down among them. In fome of the other fhips, the 
defire of the women to, be with the men was fo uncontrol- 
lable, that neither fhame (but indeed of this they had long 
loft fight), nor the fear of punifliment, could deter them 
from making their way through the bulk heads to the apart- 
ments afiigned the feamen. 
25th. Still inclinable to calms, in lat. 8" 30' N. long. 
22° 36' W. we perceived a ftrong current fetting to the 
north-weft; fo that on the following day, though by our 
' log we had run thirty miles fouth by eaft, yet by obferva- 
tion we found ourfelves in lat. 45'; which fhows the 
current againft us to be nearly a knot an hour. I vifited 
the different tranfports, and found the troops and convicts, 
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