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 but they were ufficient to quicken my anxiety, to find a place for refrehment, whenever it might be wanted. For though my crew were at preent in good health and pirits, I had learned by my former expeditions, that there is no circumtance which operates more favorably on the temper and dipoition of ailors in long voyages, (whenever they are attacked with thoe dieaes to which they are o ubject and of coure mot frequently dread) than the certainty of a port or harbor to which they may be taken; experience having alo taught them, that the mell of the hore and change of ea diet, in general, remove the greatet part of their complaints.

We brought plenty of cocoa nuts from Iles CocosCocas [sic], and there was never wanting a freh meal of turtle; for they