March. 
2 WHITE'sJOURNALOFA 
1 7S7. next day being ufhered in with a very heavy gale of wind, made 
it impracflicable to remove the convicts from on board the 
Dunkirk prifon-fhip, where they were confined. So violent 
was the gale, that his Majefty's fhip the Druid, of thirty- 
two guns, was forced to cut away her main-mafl to prevent 
her driving on fliore. 
The weather being moderate the following day, the con- 
vi6ls were put on board the tranfports, and placed in the 
different apartments allotted for them ; all fecured in 
irons, except the women. In the evening, as there was but 
little wund, we were towed by the boats belonging to the 
guardfhips out of the Hamaoze, where the Dunkirk lay, 
into Plymouth Sound. When this duty was completed, 
the boats returned ; and the wind now frefhening fo as to- 
enable us to clear the land, we proceeded to Spithead, 
where we arrived the feventeenth, and anchored on the 
Mother Bank, among the refl of the tranfports and viifluallers 
intended for the fame expedition, under the conduct of his 
Majefty's fhip the Sirius. As foon as the fl^ip came to 
anchor, I vifited all the other tranfports, and was really 
furprifed to find the convids on board them fo very healthy. 
When I got on board the Alexander, I found there a medi- 
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