hole night on deck in anxious agitation and work. In the morning
there arose a strong wind which tore to pieces the sails on several
ships, but it also dispersed the storm clouds. Then, on the 14th, a calm
set in, and from the ships there resounded the hymns of the Sunday
services, but dense fog and continuous rains occurred and the vibrations
of the ship became in the calm ever greater. All at once there was a
great outcry in the fleet: Two ships, the Hartley (with Knyphausen
soldiers under Captain von Biesenrod) and Lord Sandwich (on board of
which was Colonel von Wurmb and a part of the life guards) could be seen
colliding because of the great waves, causing each other considerable
damage, and, thereupon, the ship Henrietta, with the Union, (upon which
there was Colonel von Herringen and a section of the regiment of
Losberg) could be seen likewise driven against each other. Alternately
heaving and sinking the upper ship always appeared as if threatening
destruction to the lower one, until the Union hoisted out a boat which,
then, by means of a rope thrown over the bowsprit, pulled the Henrietta
away. After a few agreeable days there followed on the 19th of July very
stormy weather, the sea was in a most furious rage, sails ripped apart,
but the ever agile activity of the sailors at the time of such
accidents, was always ready with instant relief and reparation. As a
spider that moves about as swiftly as the arrow in her web, so the
sailors were going up and down the rope ladders of the masts and through
the rigging, hanging only at their feet, tieing the tackle and binding
the sails. Then there followed days and nights too hot to be endured,
with heavy thunder storms; sleepless and famishing for a little fresh
air, the soldiers came even in the night time on deck; the longing for
the land grew hour by hour.

This most tedious voyage had given full play to the development of
diseases. The most careful cleanliness, the daily scrubbing of the
decks, the frequent cleaning of the cabins and rooms, the washing and
the disinfecting with steaming vinegar, the pumping in of fresh air, and
the airing of the bedding on decks: all this belonged to the general
health regimen, yet the effect of the restrained, often unnatural
physical exercises, and improper food, was not to be suppressed. While
to many a Hessian the ship became his first cradle, without granting
unto him in its hasty course a place which he could call his birthpla