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 the lat day of Augut, in Latitude 19°, the wind inclined to, and continued in„ the Eat and South Eat quarter.

On the firt of September, at Noon, we made the Iland of Saint Helena, after a paage of one month from Cape Horn. At this time I had no more than two of my crew, who were affected by the Scurvy, and the ame number beginning to complain, which was not o much owing to the length of the Voyage as to their own want of care and cleanlines after getting out of the South Seas and never hifting their wet clothes. The dieae eized them in a manner very different from any appearance of this diorder which I had yet een: they were principally affected in their hips firt, and then down their legs. We had one man indeed, who was literally panic-truck by the appearance and cries of the eal in the Pacific Ocean; if we had remained twenty-four hours at ea, he would not have recovered.