28th [February, 1777]: Bread becomes scarcer and we are obliged to lessen our allowance; it was on the 29th of January the first allowance was weighed out, to the sailors to 10 p week, to the cabin passengers and officers, to 7; on the next week the sailors were reduced to seven pounds, the passengers and officers to 4; the third week the sailors and passengers fared alike, and the quantity was reduced to three pounds p week; at present we are under the necessity of decreasing the allowance to four ounces of bread p day, old and wormeaten; our good beef is all expended, we have a little remaining but this is much tainted, very offensive, and full of worms; two days out of seven we have pork, a little being. still left, the other five days beef, but the quantity of this is so small, that the sailors always eat it raw, lest it should be diminished by boiling. This day we spoke a Boston schooner out seven weeks from Hispaniola, she could afford us no supplies.