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the whole quantity ufually carried out by Surgeons, in fuch 1780. 
veffels as ours. Had more been affe&ed in the fame man- . Qa ° be 
ner, they would probably all have perhhed, from the want 
of the only remedy capable of affording them effe&ual 
relief. 
Another circumflance attending this voyage, which, if 
we confider its duration, and the nature of the fervice in 
which we were engaged, will appear fcarcely lefs lingular 
than the extraordinary healthinefs of the crews, was, that 
the two fhips never loft light of each other for a day to¬ 
gether, except twice ; which was owing, the firlt time, to 
an accident that happened to the Difcovery off the coaft of 
Owhyhee; and the fecond, to the fogs we met with at the 
entrance of Awatlka Bay. A ftronger proof cannot be given 
of the Ikill and vigilance of our fubaltern officers, to whom 
this ffiare of merit almolf entirely belongs. 
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