[Mill Prison, Plymouth, August 1778]
3. For these two months past, since we have been allowed pens, ink and paper, I have employed them to as much advantage as possible. Most of the time, I have busied myself in writing and cyphering. I have had as much writing to do as I could accomplish; and to-day I sent out to buy books and instruments to learn navigation.1 To-day a number more Frenchmen were brought to prison.
Herbert, Relic of the Revolution, pp. 151–52.
1. In his journal entry of 4 Aug., Herbert wrote: “To-day I began to study navigation.” Ibid., p. 152.
