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then to do it in a voyage during the course of which we must pass through a variety of Climates & be far above two years far removed from any European Assistance & perhaps for whole Seasons never be able to give our people air by opening the few scuttles which there are
What my Lord ought more to be dreaded by a discoverer than such distempers far removd as he must be from any European assistance such a calamity would soon oblige him to quit his discovery & very probably even put it out of his power to bring home any account of what he has done previous to its fatal influence.
I do not contend my Lord but that the Resolution might be made fit by the intended alterations for a passage to America or the West Indies but in a voyage such as I have undertaken we should instead of a ship barely fit to make a short passage be furnishd with the Safest & most Commodious ship one