Cook attributed the sickness to polluted drinking water, and ordered that it be purified with lime juice, but this had little effect.Beaglehole 1968, p. 447 Jonathan Monkhouse, who had proposed fothering the ship to save her from sinking on the reef, died on 6 February, followed six days later by ship's carpenter John Seetterly, whose skilled repair work in Batavia had allowed Endeavour to resume her voyage.Beaglehole 1968, pp. 449–450 The health of the surviving crew members then slowly improved as the month progressed, with the last deaths from disease being three ordinary seamen on 27 February.Beaglehole 1968, p. 452
