| Ajax | 550 | 20 | 10 | 2 | +----------------+--------+------+------+----+ | Princessa | 560 | 88 | 40 | 5 | +----------------+--------+------+------+----+ | Belliqueux | 500 | 19 | 0 | 1 | +----------------+--------+------+------+----+ | Prince William | 500 | 25 | 14 | 2 | +----------------+--------+------+------+----+ | Panther | 420 | 16 | 6 | 0 | +----------------+--------+------+------+----+ | Triton | 200 | 5 | 1 | 0 | +----------------+--------+------+------+----+ | Hyena | 200 | 11 | 0 | 0 | +----------------+--------+------+------+----+ | Cyclops | 200 | 5 | 2 | 0 | +----------------+--------+------+------+----+ | Total | 11979 | 977 | 696 | 64 | +----------------+--------+------+------+----+ The main body of the fleet lay at Barbadoes till the 6th of June, and the men had recruited extremely by their stay there; for vegetables, fruit, and other refreshments, can be procured at an easier rate, and in much greater plenty, at this island, than any other on the station. The fleet arrived at St. Lucia the next day after it sailed from Barbadoes, and remained there till the 18th of June. The whole of this month was showery at this island, though it is not accounted the common rainy season; for more rain falls here than at any of the other islands at that time in our possession, being the most mountainous, as well as the most woody and uncultivated, of them all. These rains produced some increase of sickness, but very little, when compared to what took place at the same time in the army on shore, and in the ships refitting at the Carenage. There died about this time from fifty to fifty-five men every week in an army of not quite two thousand men. The difference in point of health between the Carenage (which, as the word implies, is the place where ships go to be hove down, or otherwise repaired) and Gros-Islet Bay, where the main body of the fleet lay, affords a striking proof of the effects of situation. The Carenage is a land-locked creek, with a marsh adjacent to it, whereas the other is a road open to the fine air of the sea, the only land sheltering it to windward being a small, dry island, consisting of one hill, of half a league in circumference, and some of the cliffs of the main island of St. Lucia. The increase of sickness here was farther prevented by the men having little labour to perform on shore, nor any haunts to encourage intemperance, a vice which the Admiral endeavoured still more effectually to prevent, by ordering all the rum stills in the neighbourhood to be destroyed.