25$ COOK'S SECOND VOYAGE JULY, 



CHAP. XI. 



ARRIVAL OF THE SHIP AT THE ISLAND OF FAYAL, A DESCRIP- 

 TION OF THE PLACE, AND THE RETURN OF THE RESOLU- 

 TION TO ENGLAND. 



At five o'clock in the evening of the 13th, we made 

 the island of Fayal, one of the Azores, and soon after 

 that of Pico, under which we spent the night making 

 short boards. At day break, the next morning, we 

 bore away for the bay of Fayal, or De Horta, where, 

 at eight o'clock, we anchored in twenty fathoms 

 water, a clean sandy bottom, and something more 

 than half a mile from the shore. Here we moored 

 N.E. and S. W., being directed so to do by the master 

 of the port, who came on board before we dropped 

 anchor. When moored, the S. W. point of the bay 

 bore S. 16° W., and the N.E. point N. 88° E. ; the 

 church at the N. E. end of the town N. 38° W. ; the 

 west point of St. George's Island N. 42° E., distant 

 eight leagues ; and the Isle of Pico extending from 

 N. 74° E. to S. 46° E. distance four or five miles. 



We found in the bay, the Pour voyeur, a large French 

 frigate, an American sloop, and a brig belonging to 

 the place. She had come last from the river Amazon, 

 where she took in a cargo of provisions for the Cape 

 Verde Islands ; but, not being able to find them, she 

 steered for this place, were she anchored about half 

 an hour before us. 



As my sole design in stopping here was to give 

 Mr. Wales an opportunity to find the rate of the 

 watch, the better to enable us to fix, with some de- 

 gree of certainty, the longitude of these islands, the 

 moment we anchored, I sent an officer to wait on the 

 English consul, and to notify our arrival to the Go- 

 vernor, requesting his permission for Mr. Wales to 

 make observations on. shore, for the purpose above- 



