44 HISTORY OF 



Longitude ; and only two accidents happened 

 in their passage to the Brazils, a seaman fell 

 overboard and was drowned, and a female con- 

 vict was killed by a boat falling off the booms. 

 On the 2d of August the Coast of South Ame- 

 rica was in sight, and on the 4th they anchored 

 within the Islands at the entrance of the harbour 

 of Rio de Janerio. The passage from Teneriffe, 

 though a long one, was attended with no disease. 

 During their stay here the convicts had an 

 allowance of rice, oranges, and vegetables, and 

 every care was taken to enable them to with- 

 stand the scurvy; and during the whole passage 

 the Rev. Mr. Johnson performed duty every 

 Sunday. 



On Tuesday, the 4th of September, the Har- 

 bour-master took charge of the Sirius over the 

 bar, from this to Friday, the 14th, the wind 

 blew hard, when it became calm till the 16th, 

 and then it again sprung up, but by the Lady 

 Penrhyn and other transports inattention to sig- 

 nals we could not make sail in time. On the 

 19th a convict was drowned by falling over- 

 board. On the 4th of October thirty convicts 

 were reported to be ill, some of them danger- 

 ously. Four seamen from the Alexander, were 

 sent on board the Sirius, for having entered into 

 a combination to release some of the convicts, 

 while the ship should be at the Cape of Good 

 Hope. On the 13th, the fleet came to anchor 

 in Table Bay ; on the 15th Governor Phillip, 

 and the principal Officers went on shore, to pay 

 their respects to the Governor of the Cape of 



