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and the Prisoners said they had no Surgeons nor Apothecary.
Nothing had been done to cure this
man of the distemper.

I went into the Cabbin & asked what bread
or biscuit they had: and the Captain brought
me some good, wholesome brown biscuit. I heard
in about half an hour their bread was to be
weighed out – I waited that time & saw from
10 to 18 different messes weighed; and they
weighed about 4 Lb for a mess: (they mess
6 together.) The biscuit was brought in two sacks.
The one was all crumbs and the other was
broken one. There were many whole ones &
some three parts of ones. They took out about two
handfuls of the crumbs and the rest out of the
other. I staid by while 18 messes at least were weighed
out: and I was saw the whole biscuits were
mouldy and green on both sides. The crumbs
I could not see so distinctly: but I apprehend
them to be the same sort. I enquired where they
had that biscuit from: they told me from
Poole. I conjectured it came from New-foundland.
It appeared to be Ship-biscuit. When

When I was going away I said, how
Captain, how could you tell me this was the
men's biscuit? when their's is all mouldy. He
said, it is not mouldy. I then order'd many of
them to set down their handkerchiefs. I untied
them & took it out & shew'd it to the Captain,
and

Identifier: | JB/119/040/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 119.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	119	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	040	Info in main headings field	hulks
Image	002	Titles
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f13 / f14 / f15 / f16
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::r williams [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	c. hamilton
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	39551
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