36 VOYAGE IN SEARCH 



CHAPTER II. 



TVe leave Teneriffe to proceed to the Cape of Good 

 Hope. Different obfcrvations. Shining phe- 

 nomenon in the Jea, fingularly phofphoric. An 

 experiment which makes me acquainted with the 

 mojl ordinary caufe of the pho/phorefcence offea- 

 ivater. Four of the Teneriffe Jheep thrown 

 overboard y and for what reafon. Faint degree of 

 heat quite clofe to the line. A much greater 

 variation of the compafs to thefouth than to the 

 north of the equator. A very eafy method that 

 we employ for fweetening the frefh water which 

 was beginning to putrefy. A very thick fog y 

 which occajions an elevation of the mercury in 

 the barometer. A lunar rainbow. Arrival at 

 the Cape^of Good Hope. 



J\ HEAVY lwcll had, for near two days, pre- 

 vented us from flipping our fupplies. Wc were 

 not ready to fail till the 23d of October. 



Very early in the morning we began to weigh. 

 All the boats had been hoifted in the day before, 

 after we had unmoored ; for it was ncccfTary to 

 endeavour to take advantage of the land breeze 

 which fcldom fails to fpring up every morning. 

 Befides, it was proper to anticipate the period of 

 the flood, which wa.> to make about half pafl five 



o'clock. 



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