preferring the Health of Seamen, 405 
cannot be paid; the leaf negledt occafions a putrid, of- 
fen five fraell below, which, nothing but fires will re- 
move: and if thefe be not ufed in time, thofe fmells 
will be attended with bad confequences. Proper 
care was taken of the fliip’s coppers, fo that they were 
kept conftantly clean. The fat, which boiled out of 
the fait beef and pork, I never fuffered to be given to the 
people, as is cuftomary ; being of opinion that it promotes 
the fcurvy. I never failed to take in water wherever it 
m as to be procured, even when we did notfeem to want it; 
becaufe I look upon frefh water from the fhoreto be much 
more wholefome than that which has been kept fome time 
on board. Of this effential article we were never at an al- 
low ance, but had ahvays abundance for every neceffary 
purpofe. I am convinced, that with plenty of frefh water,, 
and a clofe attention to cleanlinefs, a flip’s company will 
feldom be much afflicted with the fcurvy, though they 
fliould not be provided with any of the antifcorbutics be- 
fore mentioned. W e came to few places where either 
the art of man or nature did not afford fome fort of 
ref ref ament or other, either of the animal or vegetable 
kind. It Avas my firfl care to procure what could be 
met with of either by every means in my power, and 
to oblige our people to make ufe thereof, both by 
my example and authority ; but the benefits arifing 
from fuch refrefiments foon became fo obvious, that 
1 had little occafion to employ either the one or the other. 
Thefe, sir, were the methods, under the care of Provi- 
dence, by which the Refolution performed a voyage of 
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