as it occasioned very troublesome spasmodic affections.
On the 11th we steered very near the Portland Islands.
In the afternoon of the 12th we espied the most easterly of the Admiralty Isles.
On the 18th, about sun-set, we discovered the Anchorites S.W. by W.
About seven o'clock in the evening of the 21st we lost our Commander Dentrecasteaux; he sunk under the violence of a cholic which had attacked him two days before. For some time he had experienced a few slight symptoms of the scurvy, but we were far from imagining ourselves threatened with so heavy a loss.
August 2d. we descried the Traitors Islands, and about noon we saw them at the distance of 20,000 toises, from S. 35° W. to S 42° W. we being in 6′ S. lat. 134° 3′ E. long.
On the 8th our baker died of the scurvy, his whole body having been previously affected with an emphysema, which had encreased with astonishing rapidity, in consequence of the heats of the Equator.
On the 11th we doubled the Cape of Good Hope of New Guinea, and on the 16th cast anchor at Waygiou.
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