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had sent that for me — after [?-?] said to Mr Nelson that be in the other Room [?] you and Mr Fryer what I order'd — I said sir I beg your pardon but that bed was sent for me from the Governour — but Mr Nelson was [certainly?] welcome to take part of it — o no Mr Nelson said, Mr Fryer. I heard the Black man say that the Governour sent it for you — however I insist'd that Mr Nelson should sleep there — and he did — the next day there were sheets sent from the Hospital for them to sleep on — and some cloth to cover them Captn Bligh say in his narritive that above all
are the thanks due to almighty God who had given us power to support and bear such heavy calamities and had enabled him at last to be the means of of saving eighteen lives, had they not a been saved — he would have been the means of loosing them — in another place he say for his part wonder full as it may appear I felt neither extreme hunger nor thirst that his allowance contented him knowing that he [could?] get no more — I wonder that Mr Bligh said that his allowances contented him when the carpenter told him at times that he had [seen?] him frequently when serving the Bread