WHITE*s JOURNAL OF A 
bringing fome clothing from the bowfprit end, where he 
had hung them to dry, fell overboard. As foon as the 
alarm was given of a man being overboard, the fliip was - in- 
ftantly hove to, and a boat hoifted out, but to no purpofe. 
Lieutenant Ball of the Supply, a moft adive officer, knowing 
from our proceedings (as we were at the time fleering with a 
fair wind, and going near fix knots an hour) that fome acci- 
dent muft have happened, bore down ; but notwithftanding 
every exertion, the poor fellow funk before either the Supply 
or our boat could reach him. The people on the forecaftle, 
who faw him fall, fay, that the fhip went diredlly over him, 
which, as fhe had quick way through the water, muifl: make 
it impoffible for him to keep on the furface long enough to 
be taken up, after having received the ftroke from fo heavy 
a body. 
23d.^ From the 19th, the weather had been cold, dry, 
and pleafant ; it now became wet, fqually, and unfettled ; 
the wind wefterly, with a high fea; albatrofles, pintado 
birds, and fome fmall hawks, hovering round the fhip. 
30th. The weather became more moderate and pleafant, 
the wind variable, inclining to calms. 
Oiflober ift. Light airs, with haze and rain. Saw a 
great 
