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1780. juftly confldered as the principal caufe, under the bleffing 
°_ er '. of Divine Providence, of this Angular fuccefs. But the 
baneful effects of fait provifions might perhaps, in the end, 
have been felt, notwithflanding thefe falutary precautions, 
if we had not aflifted them, by availing ourfelves of every 
fubifitute, our fituation at various times afforded. Thefe 
frequently confuting of articles, which our people had not 
been ufed to confider as food for men, and being fometimes 
exceedingly naufeous, it required the joint aid of perfuafion, 
authority, and example, to conquer their prejudices and 
difgufts. v 
The preventives we principally relied on were four krout 
and portable foup. As to the antifcorbutic remedies, with 
which we were amply fupplied, we had no opportunity of 
trying their effects, as there did not appear the flighted: 
fymptoms of the fcurvy, in either fhip, during the whole 
voyage. Our malt and hops had alfo been kept as a re- 
iource, in cafe of adual ficknefs, and on examination at the 
Cape of Good Hope, were found entirely fpoiled. About 
the fame time, were opened fome calks of bifcuit, flour, 
malt, peafe, oatmeal, and groats, which, by way of expe¬ 
riment, had been put up in fmall calks, lined with tin- 
frail, and found all, except the peafe, in a much better Hate, 
than could have been expected in the ufual manner of 
package. 
I cannot negled this opportunity of recommending to the 
confideration of Government, the neceflity of allowing a 
luflicient quantity of Peruvian bark, to fuch of his Majefly’s 
fhips as may be expofed to the influence of unwholefome 
dimates. It happened very fortunately in the Difcovery, 
that only one of the men that had fevers in the Straits of 
Sunda, flood in need of this medicine, as he alone confumed 
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