Dear all, Firstly, Captain Cook's voyages were so successful because he heeded the advice of a friend, sometimes fellow traveller ,and fellow Yorkshireman, Dr. James Lind/Lynd. {My maiden name is Lynd, and my Lynds were also from Yorkshire!) I wrote a little about him and his discovery in regard to the scurvy suffered by the Ocean convicts on my ancestor Benjamin Briscoe's website page: "Scurvy is "a state of dietary deficiency of vitamin C (ascorbic acid) [and] is an ancient disease. Egyptians recorded its symptoms as early as 1550 BC. Scurvy was the scourge of the sea explorers of the Renaissance era (16th-18th centuries). In 1746, James Lind [or Lynd], a British naval surgeon, established the fact that oranges and lemons were effective in curing scurvy." Lynd's theory was also put into practise when the First Fleet was sent to Australia, resulting in an astonishingly successful and healthy voyage - the death toll on the fleet was actually lower than that in England at the time.. They were issued with vast quantities of oranges when they reached Rio, for instance, and a much better diet than they were accustomed to. Scurvy was rarely a problem on the voyages to Australia - it was the dreadful circumstances around the Ocean voyage to VDL that caused the problem. In Hobart Town during the starvation years, the settlers ate "Botany Bay greens" - various leafy vegetables growing on the sea shore - in England, one of these plants, Samphire, is still eaten and grown commercially. They also ate seaweeds, like the "Dulce and Tangle" my Scottish ancestors ate during the 1700s. Secondly, for those unaware of the early European settlement in VDL, Risdon Cove had been established a year before the Ocean arrived, and it was for that reason that some of the sickest convicts were sent there to hopefully recover from their scurvy symptons - there was shelter there already and some vegetable gardens. Risdon Cove is on the opposite side of the Derwent River to Hobart. Thirdly, I thought, when I sent out the log of the Ocean to some who asked, that I might post a link to my partial transcription of the log of the Dromedary voyage of 1819-1820. I transcribed the log in full when I discovered it was available online, after discovering five of the men who married into my First Fleet family arrived on that voyage. Here's my website link: http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/136421/20141022-0039/www.heavenandhelltogether .com/indexd051.html?q=node/234 If anyone would like the complete transcript please email me off list. I'll wait a couple of days and send out a group email to all of those who'd like a copy. Best wishes, Carol Brill.

> Carol, I am interested in the "Dromedary". Edward Lowndes was one of the convicts who arrived Hobart > > On 22 nd March 1819, 11 men were sentenced fto Transportation 7 years. > Edward Lowndes was one of these men. I know a little of his story as > he befriended my ancesor Stephen Holland Bond Read, transported on the > "Juliana" arriving in Hobart Dec 1820. I tried to access the link you > gave, but got a message that file was not available. Colleen > > > > _______________________________________________ > AUS-Tasmania Mailing List Website http://www.rootsweb.com/~austashs/ > Contact Admin [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref > Unsubscribe and Archives https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/listindexes/search/aus-tasmania > Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 > Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog > RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community > >