JB/540/360/002

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to Speak, even when the Fit was not on him; but in the
course of the time I stayed with him on board which was two
days & two nights (for he was kept waiting one day for the
men's Provisions) I had the satisfaction of seeing him
considerably strengthen'd and I hope the Ague gone.
When he was incapable of business, which was the case
for several days, everything was either at a Stand or
going wrong, nobody capable of supplying his place in
a business so new and so much his own

Fear of being distanced by the Empress hurried him
away in this Condition before the fitting up of the
habitable Part was finished. He took a number of the
hands aboard with him for that purpose, and they
were working as much at their ease as on dry Land.
The hold given to the wind by the necessary heighth
of the habitable part above the water was a great
difficulty to content with in a stormy part of the year,
though so confined & winding a Channel, rendered
only the more dangerous by spreading itself occasionally,
at this Season of inundation, over Underwoods and
Sand Banks.

Identifier: | JB/540/360/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 540.
Date_1	1787-05-03	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	540	Main Headings
Folio number	360	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
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