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SOtli. The articles of Avar ^vere read, and a general muster and 
inspection of the crew took place, as is usual on Sundays. 
21st. Being restored to a tolerable state of health and spirits, 
I began to notice the contents of our ship, and the heterogenous 
nature of the objects brought together. General Bonaparte's 
property filled great part of the deck, and as it has been insinuated, 
that he was left in a starving condition, it may not be unin- 
teresting to know, what the Zebra alone added to his store, of 
which I took some account, a hundred bags of corn and oatSj 
twelve bales of hay, ten casks of wine, six barrels of butter, and 
forty or fifty sheep, several of which died on the passage. Every 
man of war, sailing from the Cape, was charged with some arti- 
cles, either of provision or manufacture, for this celebrated captive. 
But how are the mighty fallen ! Fallen indeed, in every sense, 
even in mind, so as not to be able to restrain a species of fretful- 
ness, which leads him to encourage complaints, founded on false- 
hood. Bonapa¥te's goods were all marked with a Bp, by his 
own direction. Among other live stock on board, was a young 
jackal. This savage cub, a moment after he was brought on 
board, seeing an unfortunate cock walking on deck, siezed it 
by the neck, and sprang with it overboard, supposing the green 
ocean to be a field. The boat being out, both were soon taken 
up, and the jackal saved. 
22d. The wind continued strong and fair, and all were thank- 
ful for the progress we made. 
I shall ever remember with gratitude, the civility and kind 
attention of Captain Forbes and the officers of the Zebra. Many 
of them had seen much service, and fought nobly in their king 
and country's cause. Some had travelled to almost every part 
of the known world, and I could not fail to derive much enter- 
tainment and information from their occasional relations of re- 
markable events, which were always unaffected and unassuming. 
A passenger, Captain Brabyn of the infantry, who had spent six- 
teen years in New South Wales, and Avas obliged to visit England, 
