■ thecatpenter of the Hartwell, who was on board jhe Amerfcari.
jjjavenjber.’ fliip, that no lives were loft%y the accidept.^Xhe .principak
part of'the crew, ,we. found, had’got.to Madeira, on their
return gto England. Abreaft o f Penguin Tfland, about three
o’clock, we paiTed a large Dutch, fhip from Holland, bound
to the Cape, with troops on board.* A little before it was
dark, we fpoke the Kent whaler,' fropi London* who had
been fdur months out., She-with ourfelves was'endeavouring
to get to-the eaftward. On our firft dlfcoveringd her,- as
fhefeemed; defirous of joining or fpeaking -to the ; fleet*,
we .were in hopes of her being frorh England, probably,
to us -..or at leaft that we might get letters* by her; (b<ut pur
fufpenfe on thefe points,- a fufpenfe „only tft;be conceived
by perfpns,, on long voyages, was) Toon put :;a'n: -endjotby
hearing fhe had been fd many rnpnth| out. ' A; few. days:
before we left the Cape, fpme of the officers of the expe~
dition received.letters;from England by theRanger.Eaft India
packet, Captain Buchanan, who had put in’to, water, and
flop a leak ; ■ both pf which being foon accomplifhedj.; fhe
proceeded, on her voyage. C
14th. This morning Catherine Pryor, one of the *eoni
' vi£ts*
Svifts^waysadselivered^ a male , child. The officers, feamen,
troopsVCanded6nvi^ts^Were put to an allowance of three quarts
oPwafe'f a day.
-17th. The wind variable; inclining to the fouthward and
eaftward, with hazy weatherm an epidemic dyfentry appeared
among the-'Qopivi^ whickveryToon made it£ way’among the
marines;’fand-I prevailed; .wi,t’h , violerice and obftin,acy' until
Chriftkia^',!iwh'^n it was gp^under by an. unremitting
attentions vto. eleanlinefs, and eyery/othfer method proper and-
effentiaktfpr-. tkejfremolval and- prevention'; pff&qntagipn. It
gWei.gme pleafure tj^be- able to; ad<h that we qjtily ’loft one
by this.;difea-fe,.violent and dangerous as,;it? was;,
and that;was* Daniel Creftwell,] qpe^of the;,Itrqops,,intended
fori t%vg^rifon ; .who was felzedvon the rgthjqf Noyember*
and died )the ,3-qthfqf the fame niPnth^the.plbyenth1 day ©f
his Jllnpfs. From ^the commencement' of* his diforder, he
was in themoft acute agonizing pain I, even, was witnefs to ;
nor was -it; in the power of medicine Jo,1 procure him the
fhorteft interv-alof eafe. His cafe.being-a-yery fingular/one,
I havp tranfmitted it, with feme others,, toa,)mfdicaL friend
in-London, with permiffion to make what ufe, o f them- hp
may think proper. The wind kept J o the Southward and
eaftward