He found a sorry state of affairs.

All on board were ill from scurvy.

Hastily erecting canvas houses on the beach, the men of his own crew went to the relief of their suffering comrades of the other vessel.

Then the crew of the relieving ship took the sickness, and soon there were so few well men left that they could scarcely attend the sick and bury the dead.

Those first two weeks in the new land, in the month of May, 1769, were never to be forgotten.