17th to 25th November 1770

[Heaving down at Batavia]

Employ'd rigging the Ship, getting on board Stores and Water, which last we have sent from Batavia at the rate of Six shillings and 8 pence a Leager, or 150 Gallons.  We are now become so sickly that we seldom can muster above 12 or 14 hands to do duty.