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The multiplicity of religious cuftoms intro- 

 duced among the inhabitants, did not prevent 

 many of thefe women from coming, with a 

 chaplet in their hands, to meet our failors, when- 

 ever they went on more : feveral had long to 

 repent having fufFered themfelves to be feduced 

 by fo many charms. 



The wine of TenerifFe, which, as I have al- 

 ready remarked, is very heady, had like to have 

 been fatal to one of our foldiers ; being drunk, 

 he committed a very ferious offence againft a 

 fentinel. Our Conful employed the intereft: 

 which he had with the officer commanding in 

 the abfence of the Governor-general, to flop all 

 profecution againft this man, who was more to 

 be pitied than blamed. 



The difcipline ellablifhed on board Englifh 

 fhips of war, fecures them from fimilar in- 

 conveniences. The Scorpion floop, of lix- 

 teen guns and a hundred men, commanded 

 by Captain Benjamin Hallowell, had anchored 

 in the road on the 18th, in company with a 

 fmall cutter, having come from Madeira five 

 days before : they had left there a fifty-gun 

 fhip, which was fhortly to fail for Teneriffe. 

 Commodore Inglefield, who commanded her, was 

 the fenior officer of this little fquadron, which 

 was deftined for the coafl of Africa. Thefe 

 navigators, knowing how dangerous it is to 



failors 



