MAJOR SEMPLE LISLE. 2S1 



©f confiderable flrength, and might be made im- 

 pregnable ; the paffage from hence to the town 

 is allowed to one ferry-boat only, and it is be- 

 iides guarded by foldiers. No accefs is allowed 

 to ftrangers, though fome of our enterpriiing 

 Englilhmcn, with their ufual ingenuity, contri- 

 ved to vifit it according to Lizo. 



I did not embark for fome days atfer the reft:. 

 As I had now loft my friend Black, our compa- 

 ny was reduced to myfelf, the boy Richards^ 

 and my fervant. I the more lamented his depar- 

 ture lince, on account of his ilvill in navagation, 

 he was highly efteemed by all the Portuguefe 

 Officers, particularly by Captain Thompfon -and 

 the Chevalier cie Drocaurt, Captain in that navy, 

 a Commander of the order of Malta, and late 

 Aid-de-Camp to the celebrated Count d'Eftaing- 

 From what thefe gentlemen faid, 1 am convin- 

 ced that he might have obtained very rapid pro- 

 motion in the Portuguefe fervice, if his incli- 

 nation had led him to flay there. 



i embarked on board her Majelly's iliip the 

 UlyfTes, on the firfl: of February, and failed the 

 fame day, with a fquardron of fliips of war, 

 commanded by Rear Admiral IFrancifco de 

 Paula Leite^ and the convoy, though we did 

 not arrive at Bahia de Todos os Santos^ till the 

 third of April, Notwithftanding our tedious 

 pafTage, we reached our port eleven da/s bc-^ 



