an hofpital, in which thofe that were able to go about, were
too few to attend the fick, who were confined to their hammocks
; and we had almoft every night a dead body to commit
to the fea. In the courfe of about fix weeks, we buried
Mr. Sporing, a gentleman who was in Mr. Banks’s retinue,
Mr. Parkinfon, his natural hiftory painter, Mr. Green the
aftronomer, the boatfwain, the carpenter and his mate, Mr.
Monkhoufe the midlhipman, who had fothered the fhip
after fhe had been ftranded on the coaft of New Holland, our
old jolly fail-maker and his affiftant, the Ihip’s cook, the
•corporal of the marines, two of the carpenter’s crew, a midlhipman,
and nine feamen; in all three and twenty perfons,
befides the feven that we buried at Batavia.
C H A P ,
C H A P . XIV.
Our A rrival at the Cafe o f Good Hope; fame Remarks on
the Run from Java H ead to that Place; a Defcription
o f the Cape, and o f Saint Helena : W ith fome Account of
the Hottentots, and the Return o f the Ship to England.
ON Friday the 15th of March, about ten o’clock in the 1771.
morning, we anchored off the Cape of Good Hope, in , M,rcl1-
feven fathom with an ouzey bottom. The weft point of the Frida>’ *>•
bay, called the Lion’s Tail, bore W. N. W. and the caftle
S. W. diftant about a mile and a half. I immediately waited
upon the Governor, who told me that I fliould have every
thing the country afforded. My firft care was to provide a
proper place alhore for the fick, which were not a few ; and
a houfe was foon found, where it was agreed they fhould be
lodged and boarded at the rate of two Ihillings a head per
day.
Our run from Java Head, to this place, afforded very few
fubjefts of remark that can be of ufe to future navigators ;
fuch as occurred, however, I lhall fet down. We had left
Java Head eleven days before we got the general fouth eaft
trade-wind, during which time, we did not advance above
5° to the fouthward, and 3' to the weft, having variable
light airs, interrupted by calms, with fultry weather, and
an unwholefome air, occafioned probably by the load of vapours
which the eaftern trade-wind, and wefterly monfoons,
bring into thefe latitudes, both which blow in thefe feas at
the time of year when we happened to be there. The eaft-
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