A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany-Bay
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Of two hundred and twelve marines we lost only one; and ofseven hundred and seventy-five convicts, put on board in England, buttwenty-four perished in our route. To what cause are we to attributethis unhoped for success? I wish I could answer to the liberal manner inwhich Government supplied the expedition. But when the reader is told, that some of the necessary articles allowed to ships on a common passageto West Indies, were withheld from us; that portable soup, wheat, andpickled vegetables w...ere not allowed; and that an inadequate quantity ofessence of malt was the only antiscorbutic supplied, his surprise willredouble at the result of the voyage. For it must be remembered, thatthe people thus sent out were not a ship's company starting with everyadvantage of health and good living, which a state of freedom produces;but the major part a miserable set of convicts, emaciated fromconfinement, and in want of cloaths, and almost every convenience torender so long a passage tolerable. I beg leave, however, to say, thatthe provisions served on board were good, and of a much superior qualityto those usually supplied by contract: they were furnished by Mr.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Of two hundred and twelve marines we lost only one; and ofseven hundred and seventy-five convicts, put on board in England, buttwenty-four perished in our route. To what cause are we to attributethis unhoped for success? I wish I could answer to the liberal manner inwhich Government supplied the expedition. But when the reader is told, that some of the necessary articles allowed to ships on a common passageto West Indies, were withheld from us; that portable soup, wheat, andpickled vegetables w...ere not allowed; and that an inadequate quantity ofessence of malt was the only antiscorbutic supplied, his surprise willredouble at the result of the voyage. For it must be remembered, thatthe people thus sent out were not a ship's company starting with everyadvantage of health and good living, which a state of freedom produces;but the major part a miserable set of convicts, emaciated fromconfinement, and in want of cloaths, and almost every convenience torender so long a passage tolerable. I beg leave, however, to say, thatthe provisions served on board were good, and of a much superior qualityto those usually supplied by contract: they were furnished by Mr.
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