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( 105 ) seamen employed in it than the present West India trade.

The third species consists in certain vessels going to the same coast, viz. men of war, which do not experience the same proportion of loss.

Captain Scott, of the Merlin, which carried 100 men, lost eight, of whom only four died of the disorders of the country.

Sir George Young, in the ship he commanded, which had 100 men, lost two, who were sickly when they left England, and a boy by accident.

Capt. Thompson, of the Nautilus, out of 100 burled one, who died by his own neglect.

Captain Hills, of the Zephyr, out of 90 buried none.

And Captain Wilson, of the Race-Horse, out of 100, did not lose a man. Thus, out of 490 in the ships of war, only twelve were buried. C H A P.IX.O