4 Augufi 1748. 



and the German ocean has on the contrary 

 fhort and broken waves- 



Whenever an animal is killed on board 

 the fhip, the failors commonly hang fome 

 frefh pieces of meat for a while into the 

 fea, and it is faid, it then keeps better. 



Auguft the 15th. The fame fwell of the 

 fea ftill continued, but the waves began to 

 fmooth, and a foam fwimming on them 

 was faid to forebode in calm weather, a 

 continuance of the fame for fome days. 



About noon a north eafterly breeze 

 fprung up, and in the afternoon it blew 

 more, and this gave us a fine fpe&acle; for 

 the great waves rolled the water in great 

 meets, in one direction, and the north eaft- 

 erly wind curled the furface of thefe waves 

 quite in another. By the beating and darn- 

 ing of the waves againfh one another, with a 

 more than ordinary violence, we could fee 

 that we patted a current, whofe direction 

 the captain could not determine. 



Auguft the 1 6th — 21ft. The fame fa- 

 vourable breeze continued to our great com- 

 fort and amazement, for the captain ob- 

 ferved that it was very uncommon to meet 

 with an eafterly or north-eafterly wind be- 

 tween Europe and the Azores (which the 

 failors call the Wefiern IJlands) for more 

 than two days together 5 for the more com- 

 mon 



