VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES. 
with water, and other neceffaries ; fuch as fowls, goats, and 
hogs ; all which are to be purchafed at a very eafy rate. 
20th. This evening, (landing to the fouthward with all 
fail ; the wind moderate ; the air warm and damp, with 
haze; theSiriiis made the Alexander's fignal, who had dropped 
confi-derably aftern, and reprimanded the mafter for hoiding 
out a boat without permiflion. The two following days the 
weather was moderately warm,, with fome flafhes of light- 
ning. 
23d. The weather became exceedingly dark, warm^ 
and clofe, with heavy rain ; a temperature of the atmofphere 
very common on approaching the equator, and very much 
to be dreaded, as the health is greatly endangered thereby. 
Every attention was therefore paid to the people on board 
the Charlotte, and every exertion ufed to keep her clean and 
wholefome between decks. My firft care was to keep the 
men, as far as was confident with a regular difcharge of 
their duty, out of the rain ; and I never fuffered the con- 
vids to come upon deck when it rained, as they had neither 
linen nor clothing fufHcient to make themfelves dry and 
eomfortable after getting wet : a line of eondudl which 
eannot. be too flridly obferved, and enforced, in thofe lati- 
tudes^- 
