7. Nothing remarkable.
8. This forenoon the outward bound East India fleet, with their convoys, passed by this port.
9. Nothing of interest.
10. This morning Lieutenant Knox, who is to transact the business of our exchange, came to see us, and informed us that he expects to embark us the beginning of next week. The cartel has come up to Stonehouse creek, where we can see her from the prison.
11. Nothing remarkable.
12. The wind has now veered round to the southward, and blows up rain, which I fear will delay our going.
13. This afternoon the agent, Mr. Coudry, informed us that on Monday, at ten o’clock, we are to embark.
14. Sunday. We are so impatient to be gone, that every moment of this day seems an hour long.
15. It is two years and four months to-day, since I left Newbury. This forenoon, about eleven o’clock, ninety-seven of us in number, were guarded down, and embarked on board the cartel—two of our number having died since we received the King’s pardon, and one being dangerously ill.
16. We are now on board the cartel, and waiting only for a fair wind to sail. We are allowed the liberty of the deck, by day and night, and we have tolerable good accommodations. We lodge in cabins; most of us have beds of our own, and those who have not, have King’s bedding. There are three or four sick amongst us, and they have single cabins by themselves. To-day we had salt beef and pudding, which is a great rarity.