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By the time Endeavour and her crew leave the island of Tahiti, they have been living mostly on a bread that the natives had been eating for a very long time; breadfruit. Most of them, including Nich, are entirely sick of it by now. When they are about to leave, Nich is really sad that he has to say good-bye to Tarhito, but also finds out some good news. The captain is taking a guide who knows a good amount of the pacific islands well enough through oral tradition. He is allowed to bring one helper and guess who he picks, Tarhito. Now, Endeavour must make a long journey to the other side of the pacific with almost no chance of being able to replenish supplies on the way to the East Indies. It is a long and boring travel and most of the crew comes down with scurvy and Nich and the ship's doctors and surgeon have a hard time getting vitamin C back into those men's systems. Even Tarhito and his companion from Tahiti get scurvy, although they both recover in due time.