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AN ACCOUNT OF 
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august. 
Saturday 23. 
in the dock-yard; and at ten o’clock they got the keel laid 
on the blocks, and the item and ftern-poft bolted. In the 
afternoon the boats, which had departed early, returned 
from the wreck, bringing with them a good deal more 
plank, two calks of beef in calk, and more than that quan¬ 
tity loofe, befides fome empty water-cafks, which our peo¬ 
ple were obliged to be attentive to, in order to fecure enough 
for their future voyage, the natives having deftroyed fe¬ 
ver al of them for the fake of the iron hoops.—Some little 
murmuring having arofe among thofe who were Rationed 
to the carpenters work, the heat of the weather and their 
new employment having terribly bliftered their hands, and 
their bodily fatigue added to this, had given birth to the 
difcontent; in the evening, after fupper, Captain Wilson. 
took occafion to notice the unealinefs he had difcovered*> 
and how blameable it was in thofe, who were beft able to 
labour, to exprefs fuch diffatisfaction, when even the weak- 
eft partook of their fhare in the general toil: and thus, by 
a proper and well-timed reafoning, every difquiet was fub- 
dued, and perfedt harmony and good-humour reftored.—It 
was propofed, that all fliould drink to the fuccefs of the 
Relief, which was the name intended to be given the veffei 
now begun; and on this pleafant occafion the Captain al¬ 
lotted every man a double allowance of grog. 
Squally weather; yet the boats brought one of the fix-* 
pounders on fliore. Our people were bulled all day about 
the: 
