November. 
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vids, was delivered of a male child. 1'he officers, feamen, ^1^7- 
troops, and convi6ls, were put to an allowance of three quarts 
of water a day. 
17th. The wind variable, inclining to the fouthward and 
eaflward, with hazy weather, an epidemic dyfentry appeared 
among the convids, which very foon made its way among the 
marines, and prevailed with violence and obftinacy until 
about Chriftmas, when it was got under by an unremitting 
attention to cleanlinefs, and every other method proper and 
effential for the removal and prevention of contagion. It 
gives me pleafure to be able to add, that we only loft one 
perfon by this difeafe, violent and dangerous as it was ; 
and that was Daniel Creffwell, one of the troops intended 
for the garrifon ; who was feized on the 19th of November, 
and died the 30th of the fame month, the eleventh day of 
his illnefs. From the commencement of his diforder, he 
was in the moft acute agonizing pain I ever was witnefs to ; 
nor was it in the power of medicine to procure him the 
fhorteft interval of eafe. His cafe being a very lingular one, 
I have tranfmitted it, with fome others, to a medical friend 
in London, with permifiion to make what ufe of them he 
may think proper. The wind kept to the fouthward and 
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