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terrible during our stay here about two Months, & afterwards at sea of Distempers contracted: here we lost above 1/3 of our people among whom were all my Artists, & the two poor Indians, whose loss especially I much regretted. I hope to have pleas'd my country men much with the answers they would have made to their questions: wch I was capable of doing having learnt tolerably well their Language.
From hence touching at the Cape of good hope & St. Helena, as is ye Custom of India ships, we arriv'd in the Downs on ye 13th of July 1771 so well satisfy'd with the discoveries which we had made in ye three Kingdoms of nature, that we resolv'd to solicit the Government to furnish Ships for an other undertaking of the same Nature which they have accordingly done: & in the Month of March 1772 we hope to enter upon our new undertaking.
The Number of Natural productions discover'd in this Voyage is incredible: about 1000 Species of Plants that have not been at all describ'd