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A VOYAGE TO 
1776. On the 10th, the Commiffioner and Pay Clerks came on 
» ju ;__ board, and paid the officers and crew up to the 30th of laffc 
Wednef. io. month. The petty officers and feamen had, belides, two 
months wages in advance. Such indulgence to the latter is 
no more than what is cuftomary in the navy. But the pay¬ 
ment of what was due to the fuperior officers was humanely 
ordered by the Admiralty, in conlideration of our peculiar 
lituation, that we might be better able to defray the very 
great expence of furnilhing ourfelves with a flock of necef- 
faries for a voyage which, probably, would be of unufual 
duration, and to regions where no fupply could be expedted. 
Nothing now obftrudting my departure but a contrary 
wind, which blew flrong at South Weft, in the morning of 
Thurfdayn, the iith, I delivered into the hands of Mr. Burney, firft 
Lieutenant of the Difco very, Captain Gierke’s failing orders; 
a copy of which I alfo left with the Officer * commanding 
his Majefty’s ffiips at Plymouth, to be delivered to the Cap¬ 
tain immediately on his arrival. In the afternoon, the wind 
moderating, we weighed with the ebb, and got farther out, 
beyond all the fhipping in the Sound; where, after making 
an unfuccefsful attempt to get to fea, we were detained 
Friday 12 . moft of the following day, which was employed in receiving 
on board a fupply of water; and, by the fame veffel that 
brought it, all the empty calks were returned. 
As I did not imagine my flay at Plymouth would have 
been fo long as it proved, we did not get our inftruments on 
ffiore to make the neceffiary obfervations for afcertaining 
the longitude by the watch. For the fame reafon, Mr. Bayly 
did not fet about this, till he found that the Difcovery would 
probably be detained fome days after us. He then placed 
* Captain Le Crafs, Admiral Amherlt having ftruck his flag fome days before. 
his 
