238 COOK’s VOYAGE. 
of number, which might thus become part of the language of 
people who never had any communication with each other. 
We now made the bell of our way for the Cape of Good 
Hope, but the feeds of difeafe which we had received at Bata- 
via began to appear with the moll threatning fymptons in dy- 
fenteries and flow fevers. Left the water which we had taken 
in at Prince’s Illand Ihould have had any lhare in our ftcknefs, 
we purified it with lime, and we walked all parts of the fhip 
between decks with vinegar, as a remedy againft infection. 
Mr. Banks was among the fick, and for fome time there was no 
hope of his life. We were very ibea in a molt deplorable fitu- 
ation ; the fhip was nothing better than an hofpital, in which 
thofe that were able to go about, were too few to attend the 
fick, who were confined to their hammocks ; and we had almoft 
every night a dead body to commit to the fea. In the courfe 
of about fix weeks, we buried Mr. Sporing, a gentleman who 
was in Mr. Banks’s retinue, Mr. Parkinfon, his natural hillory 
painter, Mr. Green the aftronomer, the boatfwain, the carp- 
enter and his mate, Mr. Mor.khoufe the midlhipman, who had 
fothered the fhip after Ihe had been ftranded on the coaft of 
New Holland, our old jolly fail-maker and his afiillant, the 
fhip’s cook, the corporal of the marines, two of the carpenter’s 
crew, a midlhipman, and nine feamen ; in all three and twenty 
perfons, befides the feven that we buried at Batavia. 
CHAP. XVI. 
Our Arrival at the Cape of Good Hope ; fome Remarks on the Run 
from Java Head to that Place ; a Defcription of the Cape , and 
of Saint Helena: With fome Account of the Hottentots, and the 
Return of the Ship to England. 
O N Friday the 15 th of March, about ten o’clock in the 
morning, we anchored off the Cape of Good Hope, in 
feven fathom with an ouzey bottom. The weft point of the 
bay, called the Lion’s Tail, bore W. N. W. and the caille S. 
W. diftant about a mile and a half. I immediately waited upon 
the Governor, who told me that I Ihould have every thing the 
country afforded. My firft care was to provide a proper place 
alhore for the fick, which were not a few; and a houfe was 
feon found, where it was agreed they Ihould be lodged and 
boarded at the rate of two Ihillings a head per day. 
Our run from Java head, to this place, afforded very few 
fubjedlsof remark that can be of ufe to future navigators ; fuch as 
occurred, however, 1 Hiall fet down. We had left Java Head 
eleven days before we got the general fouth eaft trade-wind, 
during which time, we did not advance above c° to the fouth- 
ward. 
