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| ^[a] In today's terms, this equates to a valuation for Endeavour of approximately £265,000 and a purchase price of £326,400.[96]
^[b] Provisions loaded at the outset of the voyage included 6,000 pieces of pork and 4,000 of beef,Jacob & co replica Watches, nine tons of bread, five tons of flour, three tons of sauerkraut, one ton of raisins and sundry quantities of cheese, salt,IWC Replica watches, peas, oil, sugar and oatmeal. Alcohol supplies consisted of 250 barrels of beer, 44 barrels of brandy and 17 barrels of rum.[97] ^[c] The shanghaiied man was John Thurman, born in New York but a British subject and therefore eligible for involuntary impressment aboard a Royal Navy vessel.[29] Thurman journeyed with Endeavour to Tahiti where he was promoted to the position of sailmaker's assistant, and then to New Zealand and Australia. He died of disease on 3 February 1771, during the voyage between Batavia and Cape Town.[98] ^[d] Some of Endeavour's crew also contracted an unspecified lung infection.[99] Cook noted that disease of various kinds had broken out aboard every ship berthed in Batavia at the time, and that "this seems to have been a year of General sickness over most parts of India" and in England.[99][100] ^[e] Navy vessels scuttled in Narragansett Bay from 3 August to 6 August 1778 included the frigates Juno 32, Lark 32, Orpheus 32,Alain SilberStein replica Watches, and Cerberus 28;[101] the galley Alarm,[74] and the transports Betty,rolex replica watches, Britannia, Earl of Oxford,Ulysse nardin replica Watches, Good Intent, Grand Duke of Russia, Lord Sandwich, Malaga, Rachel and Mary, Susanna, and Union.[102] |
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