Remarks on Board the Boston Wednesday July 8th. 1778.
[Port Louis, France]
This Day comes in with pleasent weather. the Steward delivering fresh Beef to the people, two of the french Marines, La Combe & Degout denied to take their allowance, or to do any more Duty on Board but their Stomachs & the otheers of the same sort, came too the next Day.—1
D, MH-H, Samuel Tucker Papers (MS Am 812), vol. 6 (Log Book of Boston).
1. For more on this incident, see Marine Captain Richard Palmes to Tucker, this date, immediately below.