Excerpt from Adam Duncan: The Westminster BiographiesDustier records of Beatson that we learn what West Indian service meant. It could be faced by only the young or healthy, and even by them rarely with impunity. Not until quite the close of the eighteenth cen tury was there a real and sensible improve ment in the matter of sanitation on ship board.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.