WHITE'S JOURNAL OF A 
Chatham, Portfmouth, or Plymouth ; and, confcquently, 
their proceeding to trial would not only be illegal, but a 
dired infult to the governance and power of the Board 
under which they a6i:, and to whom every appeal from 
them muft come ; unlefs an ad: of Parliament, in that cafe 
made and provided, otherwife direds. 
28th. A marine went to gather fome greens and herbs, 
but has not returned ; as he was unarmed, it is feared 
that he has been met and murdered by the natives. 
31(1. A fergeant and four privates, who had been 
miffing three days, returned. They were fent by the 
commanding officer to look for the marine, and loft them- 
felves in the woods. In the evening of this day we had 
very loud thunder, and a fliower of hail; many of the 
hail-ftones were meafured, and found to be five-eights of 
^n inch in diameter. 
November 2d. This day more hail ; the weather dark 
and gloomy, with dreadful lightning. The mercury during 
the whole of the day ftood between 66 and 68. 
7th. A criminal court fentenced a convid to five 
hundred laffies for ftealing foap, the property of another 
convidt, value eight pence. 
loth. 
