Folio 8: 15 December 1822; J Conor, much the same. Folio 8: 16 December 1822; Punished...

Folio 8: 15 December 1822; J Conor, much the same.

Folio 8: 16 December 1822; Punished Hugh Ryon with 2 dozen lashes for quarrelling and making use of threatening language in the prison.

Folio 8: 17 December 1822; The greatest number are very attentive to their schooling and several who came on board were not able to spell or even had any knowledge of the alphabet are now able to read with some facility.

Folio 8: 15 December 1822; J Conor, improving.

Folios 8-9: 19 December 1822; Disagreement with the master of the ship about the removal of the boxes belonging to the guard restricting the circulation of air to the guard room and the berth place of the sailors.

Folio 9: 23 December 1822; My worst patients are J Conor and Bukely. The former sinking fast and accumulation of fluid considerably increased in the latter. I find that the master has removed the boxes from the entrance of the guard room.

Folio 9: 24 December 1822; The general state of the prisoners health are as well as can be expected. J Conor and Bukely much the same.

Folio 9: 25 December 1822; J Conor and Bukely much the same, several of the prisoners and guard having scorbutic eruptions, additional quantity of lemon juice and sugar allowed them.

Folio 9: 26 December 1822; all my patients improving excepting J Conor and Bukely.

Folio 9: 30 December 1822; J Conor, better and Bukely, worse and very large.

Folio 10: 1 January 1823; J Conor, improving. Bukely, worse.

Folio 10: 2 January 1823; all my patients except Bukely.

Folio 10: 4 January 1823; punished Flaherty with 2 dozen lashes for quarrelling and making use of threatening language.

Folio 10: 6 January 1823; Bukely, getting worse. J Connor, better.

Folio 10: 9 January 1823; Bukely, respiration exceedingly apprehensive and evidently sinking fast. J Connor improving. The men who had scorbutic sores are also improving.

Folio 10: 10 January 1823; upwards of 20 prisoners having symptoms of pyrexia.

Folio 10: 12 January 1823; J Connor, better. Performed the operation of paracenteris on Bukely and extracted upwards of four gallons of liquid.

Folio 11: 15 January 1823; Bukely died at 12am. J Connor as before.

Folio 11: 20 January 1823; J Connor as before. Cassey, preternatural enlargement of the body with pyrexia.

Folio 11: 21 January 1823; J Connor as before. Cassey, better. All except those two are in tolerable good health.

Folio 12: 27 January 1823; J Connor, improving. Cassey, considerably better.

Folio 12: 29 January 1823; J Connor, as before. Cassey, cured.

Folio 12: 1 February 1823; punished 3 of the convicts with one dozen and half lashes for theft.

Folio 12: 4 February 1823; about 5pm the master’s son begged I would talk to his father as he was abusing one of the guard (Styles). On my entering the deck, the man appeared perfectly calm, but the master being in a most violent rage, and was standing on the poop, calling the man by every name he could think of at the time, your wife is a dam whore and shooting the poor fellow was a common observation, and certainly he went to his cabin and presently I heard the report of a pistol, indeed I am astonished how we have arrived thus far so quiet with such a turbulent character.

Folio 12: 6 February 1823; The master of the ship consulted me out of the necessity of putting at the Cape of Good Hope to obtain fuel.

Folio 13: 10 February 1823; Prisoners in good health and not one on the sick list. Waited on Colonel Bird in the absence of His Excellency the Governor, and informed me we would have to take some convicts on board for Sydney.

Folio 13: 15 February 1823; At anchor in Table Bay.

Folio 13: 16 February 1823; received on board per order of Lord Charles Summerset, 12 convicts for passage to New South Wales.

Folio 13: 18 February 1823; Sent on shore, John Howard, convict, per order of His Excellency the Governor.

Folio 13: 19 February 1823; At Anchor with the exception of a few ulcers the prisoners in good state of health.

Folio 13: 20 February 1823; at 2pm weighed and sailed out of Table Bay.

Folio 14: 25 February 1823; with the exception of a few cases of ulcers all the prisoners in good health.

Folio 15: 7 March 1823; Hugh Ryon, attacked with catarrhal complaint. William Griffin, in a very debilitated state on examination found his abdomen and extremities considerably swelled.

Folio 15: 9 March 1823; Hugh Ryon, better. William Griffin, swelling of the abdomen considerably reduced.

Folio 16: 10 March 1823; Hugh Ryon, pulse quick and strong, breathing considerably oppressed. William Griffin, enlargement of the abdomen much reduced.