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Our ship was abundantly supplied with 
good beef, pork, bacon, flour, oat meal, 
biscuit, peas, potatoes, cheese, butter, 
molasses, preserved fruit, fowls, eggs, 
dried fish, strong ale, small beer, English 
brandy, tea, coffee, sugar, tobacco, be¬ 
sides plenty of foreign spirits and wines 
for the use of the cabin. Neither was 
there any cost spared in laying in an 
ample supply of proper medicines and 
cordials for the sick. 
Early on the morning of the 23d of 
March we set sail from Whitby, amidst 
the hearty cheers of a numerous con¬ 
course of spectators. 
Being favoured with a fresh breeze 
which caused a heavy swell, a general 
sickness prevailed at our first setting out, 
from which the most experienced sea¬ 
men were not exempted, and which af¬ 
fected me so severely, as to preclude all 
possibility of making any remarks previ¬ 
ous to our landing in Shetland. 
