I find myself, notwithstanding great expences of late; viz.

These include regions with which the Admiralty have not yet, notwithstanding great diligence, been able to deal.

All the officers and sailors of all the other ships, notwithstanding great offers made them by the French, immediately deserted.

In both cases, notwithstanding greater difficulties and cost of transportation than now exist, the coins whose intrinsic worth was undervalued.

I after dinner to even all my accounts of this month; and bless God, I find myself, notwithstanding great expences of late; viz.

Before this time, however, my health was restored, notwithstanding great hardships; and being quite successful in mining, I was laying up considerable gold-dust.