May 20. There is a great frolic near by, called a bull-bating. We have a view of the people, but not of their sport.
We hear that the prisons are ready for the reception of the rebel prisoners, as we are called, and I daily expect our company to come on shore to them.
21. I gather strength, but as yet I am so weak as to be able to walk but very little. My chief employment is reading, but my eyes are weak, caused by rubbing them when I was almost blind.
22. There are two other Americans now in this ward, very sick with the small-pox; and one or two of our company, who are very sick.
23. I took my ninth portion of physic.
24. It is six weeks to-day since I came on shore, and five weeks to-morrow since I was brought into this building with small-pox. To-day I asked the doctor for some beef, which he granted; he also ordered me to go below into the recovering ward.
25. To-day I was upon full allowance, and drew a pound of beef, a pound of bread, a pound of potatoes, and three pints of beer.
26. This morning about seven o’clock, died James Jutson, an old man, prisoner from the Queen, taken with Captain Brown in the privateer sloop Charming Sally.
27. To-day we were forbidden the liberty of going up stairs to speak to our sick shipmates.
28. Yesterday, seven of Captain Brown’s crew were sent to prison, from the ship, and Captain Brown made his escape from the “Fountain Tavern,” in Plymouth Dock, where they were sent to be tried. Also, to-day took my tenth portion of physic.