(?OA8'l? 01? AU9TItAL1A. 91 Bay and,Cape Levtque, had produe.?d the/r bad .?#?. ' effects upon the constitutions of our people. Every ,?r, means were taken to prevent sickness: preserved ,, . meats were issued two days in the week in lieu of salt provisions; and this diet, with the usual ?proport/ons of lemon-juice and sugar, proved so good an ant/.scorbutic that, with a few trifling exceptions, no case of scurvy occurred. Our dry provisions had suffered much from rats and cock- roaches; but this was not the only way these vermin annoyed us, for, on opening a keg of musquebball cartridges, we found, out of 750 �rounds, more than half the number quite stroyed, and the remainder so injured as to be quite useless. The following day we made very little pro- gress, from light winds in the morning and a �dead calm the whole of the evening. At sunset we anchored at about four miles from the shore, in seventeen fathoms sandy ground. During the a?rnoon we were surrounded by an immense number of whales, leaping out of the water and thrashing the aea with their ?; the noise of which, from the c?!mness and' -perfect stillnmm of the air, was as loud as the re- port of a volley ofmnsquetry. Some remora? were also swimming about the vessel the whole day, �and a snake about four feet long, of .a yellowiah
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