Thirteen ships of the line sailed from America for the West Indies on the 25th of October, under the command of Admiral Pigot, and the other half of the fleet was left under Lord Hood, to watch the motions of the French squadron, which was then at Boston. The day on which we left the coast of America a storm came on, which lasted two days; but the rest of the passage being fair and moderate, we arrived at Barbadoes on the 20th of November, where the fleet continued for the remainder of the month. All the above-mentioned squadron, except two ships, is comprehended in the calculation of the following table, and also the Magnificent, Prudent, and Nonsuch. The two last had continued in the West Indies, during our absence. TABLE, shewing the Prevalence of Sickness and Mortality in November. +-----------------------------------------+ | Transcriber’s Keys | | | | A Proportion of those taken ill in the | | | | B Proportion of Deaths, in relation to | | the Number of Sick. | +-----------------------+--------+--------+ | | A | B | | DISEASES. | | | | | ONE IN | ONE IN | +-----------------------+--------+--------+ | Fevers | 54 | 25 | | Fluxes | 78 | 132 | | Scurvy | 86 | 0 | | Ulcers | 94 | 0 | | Other Complaints | 46 | 103 | +-----------------------+--------+--------+ | General Proportion | 15 | 77 | +-----------------------+--------+--------+ About a sixth part of the whole sick were sent to the hospital this month, and one half of these were sent to the hospital at Halifax from the Magnificent. The proportion of deaths this month, in relation to the whole number on board, was one in eight hundred and eighty-seven. Fewer were taken ill this month than the preceding, but more in proportion died; which might partly be owing to the fleet having been more at sea, and partly to the change of climate. Fevers were now more numerous, and also more fatal than any other disease; and we see them follow the contrary proportion to fluxes in the progress to the southward, that they did in our progress to the northward. These fevers prevailed chiefly in the Formidable and Warrior. In the former it first appeared among some men that had been pressed at New York from a privateer, some of whom were seized a few days after our arrival at Barbadoes with the yellow fever, and they were the only instances of it at this time in the fleet. The scurvy continued to diminish, but the ulcers increased as we came into the torrid zone.