AN 



ACCOUNT 



OF A 



VOYACxE ROUND THE WORLD, 



IN 1768, 1769, 1770, and 1771. 



BOOK L 

 CHAP. I, 



THE PASSAGE FROM PLYMOUTH TO MADEIRA, WITH SOME 

 ACCOyNT OF THAT ISLAND. 



-Having received my commission, which was dated 

 the S5th of May, I768, I went on board on the ^7th, 

 hoisted the pennant, and took charge of the sliip, 

 which then lay in the basin in Deptford Yard. She 

 was fitted for sea with all expedition ; and stores 

 and provisions being taken on board, sailed down the 

 river on the 30th of July, and on the 13th of August 

 anchored in Plymouth Sound. 



While we lay here waiting for a wind, the articles 

 of war and the act of parliament were read to the 

 ship's company, who were paid two months' wages 

 in advance, and told that they were to expect no 

 additional pay for the performance of the voyage. 



On Friday, the 26th of August, the wind becoming 

 fair, we got under sail, and put to sea. On the 31 st, 

 we saw several of the birds which tlie sailors call 

 Mother Carey's Chickens, and which they suppose 

 to be the forerunners of a storm ; and on tlie next 



E 4 



