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South Sea

March 1769

told by the people that common fishing line will never last above a year if ever so much care is taken of it

30. Some birds & bonitos seen this morn but none after I came upon deck

31. Pleasant breeze of wind which is the trade. Some few tropick birds seen this morn myself not quite well a little inflammation in my throat & swelling of the glands

April
1. Something better today as my complaint has something in it that at least putts me in mind of the scurvy I took up the lemon Juice put up by Dr Hulmes direction & found that which was concentrated by Evaporating 6 Galls into less than 2 has kept as well as any thing could do the small Cagg in which was lemon juice with one fifth of brandy was also very good tho large part of it had leak'd out by some fault in the Cagg this therefore I began to make use of immediately drinking very weak punch made with it for my common liquor

2. Many birds today about noon passd by the ship making a noise something like gulls

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