PORTER’S JOURNAL. 
88 
Thomas Milbourn, 
seaman 
Debility from diarrhoea 
Henry Kennedy, 
do. 
Ulcer on the leg 
Benjamin Hamilton. 
, do. 
Venereal disease 
Thomas Mitchell, 
do. 
Pain in the side 
John H. Parsall, 
do. 
Do. do. 
William Burton, 
boy, 
Pain in the bowels 
Robert Scatterly, 
seaman, 
Sprained ankle 
George Young, 
do. 
Rheumatism 
William McDonald, 
drummer, 
do. 
Total on the sick list 12. 
(Signed) ROBERT MILLER, Surgeon* 
We were all in high spirits, and in momentary expectation of 
falling in with some of the enemy’s ships. It was my intention 
now to look into Mocha, a small uninhabited island on the coast 
of Chili, in the latitude of about 38° 15', and about 8 leagues dis¬ 
tant from the coast. This place, I had understood, was a resort 
for the British vessels employed in smuggling, and in the whale 
fishery on the coast; and from thence I intended to proceed to 
St. Maria, another uninhabited island, about leagues farther 
north, also frequented by them; from those vessels, I hoped to 
be enabled to procure such provisions, and other supplies, as we 
were in want of, and thereby render our going into Conception 
unnecessary, as I was desirous of doing the enemy as much injury 
as possible, without giving any alarm on the coast. 
But, before I proceed farther, as this journal may accidentally 
fall into other hands, I shall take this opportunity of offering some 
hints to those, who may succeed me in attempting the passage 
around Cape Horn ; and this I feel myself the more authorised to 
do, as we have effected it in, perhaps, a shorter time, with less 
damage, and labouring under more disadvantages, than any others 
who ever attempted it; and that too by struggling, at an unfavour¬ 
able season of the year, against a constant succession of obstinate 
and violent gales of wind. And I am the more strongly induced 
to offer these hints, conceiving it to be of the utmost importance 
to navigation, to give any information, derived from experience* 
which may tend to enable navigators to overcome the obstacles* 
