Q2 Post13

Upon their departure from Batavia, the Endeavour and her crew have so far lost more than 20 men from her original crew, most of them from sickness, a few others from accidents or clashes with natives. Nich is one of the luck few who has always been able to stay healthy and pull his (and some others, especially while teaching one of the crewmembers who helped him sneak aboard Endeavour how to read) weight aboard. Batavia had been a real problem for the crew since the dry docks had to overhaul a huge section of Endeavour's hull entirely and that took months with other ships in the yard as well. Although Captain had the sick and most of the crew move out of the city to see if the clearer air would help improve their health, it only slightly improved it. Sailing across the Indian Ocean now is coincidently timed right since the monsoon winds were going towards South Africa and the Cape of Good Hope, the vertex to their final leg of the their journey.