Auguſt 31.the laſt day of Auguſt, in Latitude 19°, the wind inclined to, and continued in„ the Eaſt and South Eaſt quarter.
Sept. 1.On the firſt of September, at Noon, we made the Iſland of Saint Helena, after a paſſage 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 ſame number beginning to complain, which was not ſo much owing to the length of the Voyage as to their own want of care and cleanlineſs after getting out of the South Seas and never ſhifting their wet clothes. The diſeaſe ſeized them in a manner very different from any appearance of this diſorder which I had yet ſeen: they were principally affected in their hips firſt, and then down their legs. We had one man indeed, who was literally panic-ſtruck by the appearance and cries of the ſeal in the Pacific Ocean; if we had remained twenty-four hours at ſea, he would not have recovered.
