S IR JOHN P R ING L E ’ S DI SCOURSE.
your Tranfadtions the means by which Britain may now, on
, the moft diftant voyages, preferve numbers of her intrepid
fons, her Mariners-, who, braving every danger, have fo liberally
contributed to the fame, to the opulence, and to the
maritime empire, of their Country 1 *
* Here followed- Captain Cook’s Paper, which was prefented to the Society, and is inferted
in part 2. vol. lxvi. of the Philofophical Tranfaflions; but as the fubftance of that publication
• is now contained in the laft pages o f Captain Cook’s voyage, it was judged unneceffary to repeat
-.it here. The only material circum dance of-Captain Cook’s communication to the Society omitted
in his Journal, is the following extraft of a letter which he wrote to the Prefident, juft before
his late embarkation, dated Plymouth Bound, July 7 , 1776; and is as follows:
“ I intirely agree with you, that the dearnefs of the Rob of lemons, and of oranges, will
“ hinder them from being furnilhed in large quantities j but I do not think this fo neceflary, for
« though they may affilt other things, I have no great opinion of them alone. Nor have I a
higher .opinion of vinegar: my people had it very fparingly during the late voyage; and to-
« wards the latter part, none at all; and yet we experienced no ill effefts from the want of it.
•« The cuftom of walhing the infide of the fhip with vinegar I feldom ^obferved, thinking that
*• fire and fmoke anfwered the purpofe much better.*’