40 6 Captain cook’s Method, 8 zc. 
three years and eighteen days, through all the climates 
from 5 2° North to 7 i° South, with the lofs of one man 
only by difeafe, and who died of a complicated and lin- 
gering illnefs, without any mixture of fcurvy.. Two 
others were unfortunately drowned, and one killed by 
a fall ; fo that of the whole number with which I fet out 
from England I loft only four. 
1 have the honour to be, sir, Sec.- 
Extract of a Letter from Captain Cook to Sir John 
Pringle, dated Plymouth Sound, July 7, 1776. 
I ENTIRELY agree with you, that the dearnefs of 
the Rob of lemons and of oranges will hinder them from 
being furnifhed in large quantities, but I do not think 
this fo neceffary; for though they may affift other things, 
I have no great opinion of them alone.. Nor have I a 
higher opinion of vinegar: my people had it very 
fparingly during the late voyage; and towards the latter 
part, none at all; and yet we experienced no ill effects 
from the want of it. The cuftom of wafhing the infide 
of the fhip with vinegar I feldom obferved, thinking, that 
fire and fmoke anfwered the purpofe much better. 
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