Wednesday 7th Employ'd geting ready to heave down. In the PM we had the Missfortune to loose Mr Monkhouse the Surgeon who died at Batavia of a Fever after a Short illness of which desease and others, several of our people are daly taken ill which will make his ^loss be the more severly felt. He was succeeded by Mr Perry ^his mate who is equally well ^if not better skilld in his profession -