be instantly supply’d.  He then took leave of us, and wished us well.  All the deference and dutiful respect we could shew him, to express a grateful sense of his favour, was by manning the vessel, and giving him three cheers.  The next day arriv’d at this place the brigadier-governor of the island St Catharine; he came close by our vessel, we mann’d her, and gave him three cheers.  The soldiers of the garrison, having twenty months arrears due to them, expected the brigadier was coming to pay them, but when they found themselves disappointed, they made a great disturbance among themselves.  I apply’d to the commandant for a house, the vessel, in rainy weather, not being fit to live in; he order’d me one joining to his own, and gave me the key.  I took with me Mr Cummins, Mr Jones, Mr Snow, Mr Oakley, and the cooper; we brought our trifling necessaries on shore, and remov’d to our new habitation:  Here we were dry and warm, and though we had no bedding, we lodg’d very comfortably.  Since the loss of the Wager, we have been used to lie hard; at present we think ourselves very happily fix’d, and heartily wish that all the persons who surviv’d the loss of the ship were in so good a situation as ourselves.

Tuesday, February the 2d, 1741-2, great murmurings among the soldiers; they detain’d the brigadier from going back, as he intended, this morning, till he promis’d to dispatch the money, cloaths, and provisions, and to see their grievances adjusted.  On those terms they have agreed he shall go; and this evening he return’d for St Catharine’s.  We apprehended, till now, that the right officers were in place; but we find ourselves mistaken.  Some time before we arrived here, there was an insurrection among the soldiers:  Their design was against the governor; but by his address, and fair promises of seeing them righted, he diverted the storm from himself, and got himself continued in his station, as were also the major and commissary.  The soldiers dismiss’d the rest of the officers, and supply’d their places with their own people; though they were lately private men, they appear’d very grand, and were not distinguish’d in dress from proper officers.  The disturbance at Rio Grand is of no service to us, for we feel the effects of it, our allowance is now so small that it will hardly support nature, the people have been without Farina, which is their bread, for some days past.  We apply’d to the governor, who promis’d to supply us the next day; accordingly we went for a supply, which created fresh murmurings among the soldiers; however we got a small quantity of bread to supply us for ten days.  The store-keeper shew’d me all the provisions, which, considering there were a thousand to draw their subsistence from it, was a small stock indeed, and not above six weeks at the present allowance.  He told me we were serv’d equally with the soldiers, and when more stores came, which they shortly expected, our allowance should be encreas’d.  I think,