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By tiis advice we agreed to proceed from 

 hence to St. Catharine's in one of his whale* 

 boats, being quite difcouraged by his defcrip- 

 tion of the road, which he reprefented as even 

 ivorfe than that we had palfed. We left the 

 fiihery early in the morning, and about two 

 o'clock reached the place of our deftination. 



This pafTage for beauty exceeds any thing I 

 have ever Ccen or heard of, laying between a 

 tange of mod fertile mountains, diftant from 

 each other, in the narroweft places, about a 

 league. The whole coaft, on both lidcs, feems 

 an orangen'e ; on our pafTage we were induced 

 to flop at a farm-houfe, in a moft delightful 

 fituation, to refrefh ourfelves, and there the 

 people almofl loaded our boat with excellent 

 oranges. 



CHAP. XXII. 



Arrival at St. Catharine's i honourably received 

 there. — The Portuguefe fleet from Rio de Janeiro 

 laying in the road of St. Catharine's, the author's 

 arrival is announced to the Admiral. — Superb ce^ 

 remony at the Admiral's landing. — Chara^er of 

 the troops there* — The curious 7nanner in which 



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