These ships also brought out a large body of convicts, whose state and sufferings will be best estimated by the following return.
Names of No.

of people No.

of persons who died No.

landed sick Ships embarked on the passage at Port Jackson -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Neptune 530 163 269 Surprise 252 42 121 Scarborough 256 68 96 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- 1038 273 486 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- N.B.Of those landed sick, one hundred and twenty-four died in the hospital at Sydney.
On our passage from England, which had lasted more than eight months and with nearly an equal number of persons, only twenty-four had died, and not thirty were landed sick.

The difference can be accounted for, only by comparing the manner in which each fleet was fitted out and conducted.