Note 115 — Chapter XXIII · PARRY AND HIS SCHOOL
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Much attention was given to the provisioning. There were the preserved meats and soups of Donkin and Gamble; Burkitt’s essence of malt, hops, and spruce; lemon juice, vinegar, sauerkraut, pickles, and herbs as antiscorbutics. Coal was used for ballast, 70 chaldrons in the Hecla, 34 in the Griper. The Admiralty supplied warm clothing and wolf-skin blankets for the men without any charge.