Nov7mÏe». 3 * fymptoms of the difeafe in many perfons, and in fome
to a confiderabie degree ; but the continual Supply of freth
vegetables, which we received at that ifland, together with
the provision of excellent pork at the Society and Friendly
Hies, had entirely re-dSablifhed them. Our fécond flay at
Queen’s Charlotte’s Sound had likewife furnifhed ns, as before,
with abundance of celery and fcurvy-grafs, which
counterafted the noxious effedls of falted meat ; fo that we
were, to appearance,, in a good Rate of health at our fécond
departure from thence. It may, however, juftly be questioned,
whether the continual hardships and labours which
we had undergone, had not in reality made the Shew o f
health deceitful, and impaired the body fo much that it
was not able to refill fo long as it had formerly done. The
officers and paSTengers entered upon this fécond cruize under
Several difficulties which did not exifl before. They had
now no live-flock to be compared to that which they took
from the Cape of Good Hope ; and the little flore of provisions
which had Supplied their table with variety in preference
to that of the common Sailor, was now So far con-
fumed, that they were nearly upon a level, especially as
the Seamen were inured to that way of life by confiant habit
almoft from their infancy ; and the others had never experienced
it before. The hope of meeting with new lands
Was vanished, the topics of common conversation, were exhausted,
the cruize to the South could not prefent any thing
. new.
new, but appeared in all its chilling horrors before us, and N.vÉïlk*;
the abfence of our confort doubled every danger. We had
enjoyed a few agreeable days between the tropics, we had
feaftcd as well as the produce of various islands would permit,
and we had been entertained with the novelty of many
objeéts among different nations.; but, according to the common
viciffitudes of fortune, this agreeable moment was to
be replaced by a long period of fogs and fro fly weather, of
faffing, and of tedious uniformity. The late Abbé Chappe,.
in his. voyage to California, (or his compiler, ML Caffini, in
his name,) obferves *, “ that variety alone has, charms for
“ tbe traveller, who goes in queft of her from one country
to another. His philofophy is at the fame time of fuch
an exalted nature, that he pronounces f “ the life which
“ is led at fea to be tedious and uniform only to tbofe who,
“ are not accuftomed to look round them, and who be-
“ hold a11 nature with the eye of indifference.” Had the
good Abbé been unfortunate enough to make a vifit to the-
antaréfic circle, without the company of feveral hundred fattened
fowls, which kept him in good humour on his fhort
trip from Cadiz to Vera Cruz, his philofophy would not have-
taken fo high a flight. But though he found.variety at
fea, he was not fo fortunate in Mexico f. Here he croffed: '
great trafts of uncultivated country and'extenfive forefts, he-
faw nature in a favage ftate, allowed that fhe was rich and'
* Pag, 22, f Pag. 13 . j Pag. 22.
beautiful