50 CASE OF CAPTAIN KENNEDY. 
Bligh had brought all but Norton safe to 
Coupang : Elphinston, Linkletter, Hall, and 
Lamb, died soon afterwards. Ledward remained 
at Batavia. 
That, under the very distressing trials to 
which they had been exposed, all, with the ex- 
ception of the poor man who was murdered, 
should have been brought safe to Coupang, is a 
fact which may well excite our astonishment. 
On this head some remarks remain to be added. 
" With respect," said Bligh, " to the preserva- 
tion of our health, during a course of sixteen 
days of heavy and almost continual rain, I would 
recommend to every one, in a similar situation, 
the method we practised, which is, to dip their 
clothes in the salt water and wring them out as 
often as they become filled with rain. It was 
the only resource we had, and, I believe, was of 
the greatest service to us ; for it felt more like a 
change of dry clothes than could well be ima- 
gined. We had occasion to do this so often, that 
at length all our clothes were wrung to pieces ; 
for except the few days we passed on the coast of 
New Holland, we were continually wet either 
with rain or sea." 
The practice alluded to in this passage, as well 
as in other parts of Captain Bligh's affecting nar- 
rative, is also strongly recommended by Captain 
Kennedy, in his account of the loss of his ship 
at sea, and of his distresses afterwards. 
Captain Kennedy sailed with his crew from 
Port .Royal, Jamaica, on the 21st of December, 
1768. They were shipwrecked ; their vessel was 
sunk, and thirteen men were crowded into the 
