VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES. 
the boatfwain, who, on the firft night of the new year, 
having probably drank more grog than he ought, and the 
fhip labouring much, had fallen from the top-fail yard; by 
which he bruifed himfelf in a dreadful manner. The man 
being highly fcorbutic, the parts foon mortified, and he died 
about half an hour after I got on board. The mafter of 
the fhip fhowed evident marks of great concern for this 
htvaluable man, as he termed him. He declared to me, that 
fooner than venture again on fo long a voyage without 
a furgeon, he would put to fea with lefs than half his 
complement of men ; for he was ftrongly of opinion, 
that if the poor fellow had received immediate afliftance 
he would have recovered. I fliould have feen him fooner, 
but was prevented by my own indifferent flate of health. 
How owners of fhips can think of fending them through 
fuch a variety of climates, and a voyage of fo great a length, 
without a furgeon, is to me a matter of furprife. The Lady 
Penrhyn, owned by Alderman Curtis, was the only mer- 
chant fhip in our fieet that had a furgeon. What the 
others will do on their return. Heaven only knows ; but 
this I well know, that they would never have reached 
I thus 
