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he faid would in that cafe be o f great fervice, i f room could
be found to flow them in ; I therefore gave him leave to put
them into my cabbin, the only place in the fhip where they
could be received, as they confifted o f three large boxes.
On the 2ad, at four o’clock in the morning, I weighed
and made fail in company with the Swallow and Prince Frederick,
and had foon the mortification to find that the Swallow
was a very.bad failer.
We proceeded in our voyage, without any remarkable incident,
till Sunday the feventh of September, when, about ->•
eight o’clock in the morning, we faw the ifland o f Porto
Santo, bearing weft; and about noon faw the eaft-end of
the ifland of Madeira.
About five o’clock we ran between this end of the ifland
and the Deferters. On the fide next the Deferters is a low
flat ifland, and near it a needle ro ck ; the fide next to Madeira
is full o f hroken rocks, and for that reafon it is not
fafe to come within lefs than two miles of it.
At fix in the evening we anchored in Madeira Road, about
two-thirds of a mile from the fhore, in 24 fathom with a
muddy bottom: about eight the Swallow and Prince Frederick
alfo came to an anchor; and I fent an officer on fhore to
the Governor, to let him know that I would falute him, i f he
would return an equal number of guns, which he promifed
Monday 8. to d o ; the next morning therefore, at fix o’clock, Ifaluted
him with thirteen guns, and he returned thirteen as he had
promifed.
Having taken in a proper quantity o f water at this place,
with four pipes and ten puncheons o f wine, fome frefh
beef, and a large quantity o f onions, we weighed anchor on
Friday 12. the 13th, and continued our voyage.
At
At fix o’clock in the morning, of Tuefday the 16th, we
faw the ifland o f Palma, and found the fhip 15 miles to the
fouthward o f her reckoning. As we were failing along this
ifland, at the rate of no lefs than eight miles an hour, with
the wind at eaft, it died away at once; fo that within lefs
than two minutes the fhip had no motion, though we were
at leaft four leagues diftant from the lhore. Palma lies in
lat. 28° 40'N. long. 17° 48' W.
On the 20th we tried the current, and found it fet S. W. Saturday
by W. one mile an hour: this day we faw two herons flying
to the eaftward, and a great number o f bonettos about the
fhip, o f which we caught eight.
In the night between the 21ft and S2d we loft our com- Sunday 21.
panion the Swallow, and about eight in the morning we faw Momlay2Z"
the ifland of Sal, bearing S. -L W.; at noon it bore S. ± W.
diftant 8 leagues; and at noon on the 23d, the neareft land Tuefday23.
o f the ifland o f Bonavifta bore from S. to W. S. W. diftant
feven or eight miles, the eaft-end, at the fame time, bearing
W. diftant two leagues. In this fituation we founded, and
had only 15 fathom, with rocky ground; at the fame time
we faw a very great rippling, which we fuppofed to be
caufed by a reef, ftretching off the point about E. S. E. three
miles, and breakers without us, diftant alfo about three
miles in the direction o f S. E. We fleered between the
rippling and the breakers, but after hauling the fhip off
about half a mile, we had no foundings. The Prince Frederick
pafled very near the breakers, in the S. E. but had
no foundings; yet thefe breakers are fuppofed to be dangerous.
The middle o f the ifle of Sal is in lat. 160 35' N.
long. 2i ° j9' W, ; the middle of Bonavifta is in lat. 16° io ':
long. 23" W.
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September.
Tuefday 16.
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