| Quarter Masters | 6 | | 4 | | | Able Seamen | 45 | | 33 | | | | | | | | | | | _Marines._ | | | | | | | | | | Lieutenant | 1 | Molesworth Philips | | | | Serjeant | 1 | | 1 | | | Corporals | 2 | | 1 | | | Drummer | 1 | | 1 | | | Privates | 15 | | 8 | | | |-----| |----| | | Total | 112 | | 80 | | +-------------------+-----+--------------------+----+--------------------+ On the 10th, the commissioner and pay-clerks came on board, and paid the officers and crew up to the 30th of last month. The petty officers and seamen had, besides, two months’ wages in advance. Such indulgence to the latter, is no more than what is customary in the navy. But the payment of what was due to the superior officers was humanely ordered by the Admiralty, in consideration of our peculiar situation, that we might be better able to defray the very great expense of furnishing ourselves with a stock of necessaries for a voyage which, probably, would be of unusual duration, and to regions where no supply could be expected. Nothing now obstructing my departure but a contrary wind, which blew strong at south-west, in the morning of the 11th I delivered into the hands of Mr. Burney, first lieutenant of the Discovery, Captain Clerke’s sailing orders; a copy of which I also left with the officer[78] commanding his Majesty’s ships at Plymouth, to be delivered to the Captain immediately on his arrival. In the afternoon, the wind moderating, we weighed with the ebb, and got farther out, beyond all the shipping in the Sound; where, after making an unsuccessful attempt to get to sea, we were detained most of the following day, which was employed in receiving on board a supply of water; and, by the same vessel that brought it, all the empty casks were returned.