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533.
Janry 1771.   To the Cape of Good Hope

the Ships Company were now ill with either fluxes or severe purgings  myself far from well, Mr Sporing very ill & Mr Parkinson very little better  his complaint was a slow fever.

23. Myself was too ill today to do any thing  one of our people died of the flux in the Evening

24. My distemper this day turnd out to be a flux attended (as that disease always is) with excrutiating pains in my bowels on which I took to my bed  in the Eve Mr Sporing died

25. One more of the People died today. Myself endurd the pains of the Damnd almost  at night they became fixd in one point in my bowels on which the surgeon of the ship though proper to order me the hot bath  into which I went 4 times at the intervals of two hours & felt great releif

26. Tho better than yesterday my pains were still almost intolerable  in the Evening Mr Parkinson died & one of the ships crew

28. Self something easier but still in great pain  this day Mr Green our astronomer & two of

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