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Besides the above liberal allowance, 
there is a further issue, each week, of 
one quart of vinegar to each mess, and 
after the ship has been at sea three or 
four weeks, one ounce of lemon juice 
and an equal quantity of sugar is also 
to be issued to each convict daily. The 
period for which it has been usual to 
put the provisions on board the trans¬ 
port ships has been eight months ; be¬ 
sides this, each convict is allowed one 
hundred and twenty gallons of water, 
and two gallons of wine, the latter to 
be distributed specially at the surgeon’s 
discretion, and under his immediate 
superintendence. The women are al¬ 
lowed wine in the same proportion as 
the men convicts, and subject to the 
same restriction in its use ; they have 
also a like proportion of provisions, 
with an addition of three pounds of 
Muscovado sugar, and half a pound of 
black tea, per week, for each mess of 
six women. 
When fresh beef is issued, one pound 
is equal to a pound of salt beef, and one 
pound and a half of fresh beef to one pouud 
of pork. If vegetables are supplied on 
pork days then no peas are to be issued; 
but if not, the peas are to be served. 
There can be no mistake as to the correct¬ 
ness of this statement, as it iscopied from 
the printed document called the Vic¬ 
tualling Scheme, which is addressed to 
the Master of the Convict Ship from the 
Transport Office, Deptford, regularly 
before the voyage is begun. 
The sleeping place assigned the con¬ 
victs is within that part of the ship 
called the prison, taking the whole 
space of the ship between decks, ex¬ 
cept the necessary accommodation for 
the Master, Officers, and Seamen, ex¬ 
pressly fitted up for their reception ; it 
is divided into, what in sea-phrase are 
termed births , each to contain four 
persons, for which purpose, whatever 
has been represented, it is sufficiently 
roomy. The bedding is carefully 
brought upon deck every morning to 
be aired, when the weather will per¬ 
mit, and is stowed regularly for that 
purpose in the netting, where it may be 
kept dry should auy rain unexpectedly 
fall. 
Besides the suit of clothes given to 
each prisoner on coming aboard, another 
is provided, which is intended to be 
given them on landing at their place of 
destination; this, as well as the former, 
is of a uniform fashion and colour, to 
distinguish them from the free settlers, 
and to render them easily recognisable 
by the police. It should be also men¬ 
tioned, that the free women sent out to 
join their husbands, are allowed two- 
thirds of a seaman’s ration per diem , 
and the children one half the women’s 
allowance. 
CONVICTS BY THE NEPTUNE. 
Transported for life . . 85 
Transported for fourteen years 33 
Transported for seven years . 52 
Total 
170 
DEPARTURE. 
On the 16th December, 1817, final or¬ 
ders having been received, the Neptune 
put to sea, and proceeded on her voyage. 
Some days afterwards I was desirous 
of ascertaining the state of the convicts’ 
feelings on the prospect of a long and 
lasting separation from home and kin¬ 
dred. Many of them were fathers of 
families, upon whom a deep concern 
for 
