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1766. from the north fhore, and had no ground with 80 fathom.
■ c- m- Our longitude, by obfervation, which was made over the
Friday 26. Qjoal, was 71° 30 W. our latitude 53° 12' S.
About four o’clock we anchored in Port Famine Bay, in
13 fathom, and there being little wind, lent all the boats, and
towed in the Swallow and Prince Frederick.
Saturday ay. The next morning, the weather being fqually, we warped
the lhip farther into the harbour, and moored her with a
cable each way in nine fathom. I then fent a party of men
to pitch two large tents in the bottom o f the bay, for the
lick, the wooders, and the fail-makers, who were loon after
fent on fhore with the furgeon, the gunner, and fome mid-
lhipmen. Cape St. Anne now bore N. E. by E. dillant three
quarters o f a mile, and Sedger River S. 4 W.
Sunday 28. On the s8th we unbent all the fails, and fent them on
fhore to be repaired, eredted tents upon the banks o f Sedger
River, and fent all the empty calks on fhore, with the coopers
to trim them, and a mate and ten men to walh and fill them.
We alfo hauled the feine, and caught filh in great plenty:
fome o f them refembfed a mullet, but the flelh was very foft;
and among them were a few fmelts, fome o f which were
twenty inches long, and weighed four and twenty ounces.
During our whole flay in this place, we caught filh
enough to furnilh one meal a day both for the lick and the
well :- w e found alfo- great plenty o f celery, and1 pea-tops;
winch were boiled with the peafeand portablefoup: befides
thefe, w e gathered great quantities o f fruit that refembled
the cranberry, and the leaves o f a Ihrub fomewhat like our
thorn, which were remarkably four. When we arrived, all
our people began to look pale and meagre ; many had the
feurvy to a great degree, and upon others there were ma-
nifefl. figns o f its approach; yet in- a fortnight there was not
a fcora
fcorbutic perfon in either o f the fhips. Their recovery was
effedted by their being on lhore, eating plenty of vegetables,
being obliged to walh their apparel, and keep their perfons
clean by daily bathing in the fea.
The next day w e fet up the forge on fhore ; and from this
time, the armourers, carpenters, and the reft of the people
were employed in refitting the lhip, and making her ready
for the fea.
In the mean time, a conliderable quantity of wood was
cut, and put on board the llore-lhip, to be fent to- Falkland’s
bland; and as I well knew there was no wood ^growing
there, I caufed fome thoufands- of young trees to be carefully
taken up with their roots, and a proper quantity of
ear th; and packing them in the bell manner I could, I put-
them alfo; on board the llore-lhip, with orders to deliver
them to the commanding officer at Port Egmont, and to fail
for that place with the firlt fair wind, putting on board two
o f my feamen, who being in an ill Hate of health when they
firll came on board,, were now altogether unfit to proceed in
the voyage.
On Wednefday the 14th of January, we got all our people
and tents on board; having taken in feventy-five tons of
water from- the lhore, and twelve months provifions of all
kinds,, at whole allowance,, for ourfelves, and ten months
for the Swallow, from on board the llore-lhip, I fent the
mailer in the cutter, which was victualed for a week, to-
look out for anchoring places on the north fhore of the
Streight..
After feveral attempts to fail, the weather obliged us to
continue in our old llation till Saturday the 17th, when the
Prince Frederick Vidtualer failed for Falkland’s illand; and
the
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December*
Monday 39*
2767;
January;.
Wednef; 14.-
Saturdày^ 17;
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