Extracts from Capt Blighs Journal', 9 April 1792 - 20 February 1793 (Series 50.33) - No. 0005

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Aug.st 24       
Happily the Plants are in a most Flourishing Condition
Sept 3d           
Entered the Streight
6         
the distilling apparatus put in order allowance 2 quarts a day each man.    a Puncheon serves the plants  2 & sometimes 3 days
14
the distilling apparatus rendered useless by the inner tube becoming unsolderd
17
sent two boats in search of water found none
18
the apparatus for distillation was repaird
19
the water getting short the people were stinted
23
Fairly out of the Streights
25
up to this day the Loss of Plants

Capt Bligh attributes this loss to the Closeness of the Cabbin he observed that it cheifly[sic] fell upon the Plants in the Cabbin & that most of these which died were placd near the side where the air was least free

Oct.r  2  
Arrived at Timor weather excessive hot
4
sent pots on shore for plants  224 pots had been lost
9
received 92 pots of plants
Mangoes  -  6 pots
Jambolan  - 7
Mambo's [Manbolo]  - 20
Bilimbing - 4