Letter from Rear-Adm. Sir Samuel Hood to General Jacob de Budé, writing from various locations and detailing his activities, expressing frustration over the general lack of action by the British fleet and the failure to take opportunities against the enemy, complaining about Adm. Pigot's inexperience, reporting on illness on board his ship and his own need for exercise, and commenting on the whereabouts of Prince William and his ship.
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wait a week without receiving any. If the Commander in Chief of a great fleet does not upon every occasion===look forward, the crews of it will be often disappointed of what they stand so much in need of, are entitled to, and might have. I have had the misfortune to bury thirty nine men, since the day the Barfleur anchored at Port Royal, exclusive of the badly wounded, which were found room for in the Hospital, brought 140 to sea in fevers & fluxes, most of which gott about again, but I have no within ten of that number in the scurvy very bad, and must be put on shore as soon as possible, or they will die. If a man Strikes one Leg against another, or by any other accident breaks the skin, an ulcer soon forms, and a mortification very rapidly follows, without the greatest care, the blood of the poor fellows is in so sad a state. I stand in much need of refreshments also, but flatter myself the smell of the earth, and constant exercise mornings and evenings on Long Island, if it is [[underline]] safe [[/underline]] to ramble there, will so far sett me up, as to enable me to hold out this campaign. To see things so [[underline]] slack [[/underline]] & [[underline]] untoward, [[/underline]] cannot but affect a man in the highest Health, and it is impossible for one, afflicted as I am with strong bodily complaints, to bear up against them Since I wrote my sheet on the 21st I find my wife must have been under great trouble for the loss of her good old Father. I will not close my Letter till we reach New York, till then [[foreign: French]] adieu [[/foreign]]
