WHITE'S JOURNAL OF A 
attention to the religious rights of the country. The pro- 
ceflion, in which the governor and all the principal inhabi- 
tants joined, having paffed through moft of the ftreets, 
returned, with the fame folemnity, to the church it had fet 
out from ; which was richly ornamented, and fplendidly 
illuminated with large wax tapers, upon the occalion. 
During our flay here, his excellency the governor entertained 
Captain Phillip and all the officers belonging to the expedi- 
tion with a very elegant dinner. 
Before we failed from the Motherbank, a fporatic difeafe 
had appeared among the marines and convidls. On its firft 
appearance it refembled the mumps, or fwellings of the chaps; 
and as that diftemper fometimes terminates in a tranflation 
of the inflammation to the tefticles, fo this complaint (after 
the fwelling and induration of the jaws had fubfided, which 
ufually happened on the fixth or feventh day) never in one 
inftance failed to fix on thofe parts ; and that in fo very 
obftinate a manner, as not to give way to the treatment 
generally found effedlual in fimilar inflammations. One of 
the convicls, thus afFedted, was feized with an intermitting 
fever : between the paroxyfm I gave him an emetic ; which 
had fuch a fudden and wonderful efiedl on this flrange com- 
plaint, 
