136 CAPTAIN CARTWRIGHT'S 



We sailed from Plymouth early in the morning 

 of the fifth, but meeting with contrary winds we 

 had a tedious passage to Waterford, for we did 

 not arrive there till the afternoon of the tenth. It 

 was some consolation, however, to be favoured 

 with fine weather, and to catch great plenty of 

 mackarel every day. 



My time was taken up till the sixteenth, in pur- 

 chasing and getting on board such provisions as I 

 had occasion for; I also hired another woman- 

 servant, and on that day I sailed for Labrador. 



As voyages across the Atlantic at this time of 

 the year are generally tedious, by reason of the 

 prevalency of the westerly wind, I was not sur- 

 prised, that this proved longer than was conve- 

 nient to me. The weather, in general, was exceed- 

 ingly fine, and we caught plenty of fish of different 

 kinds; such as mackarel,^ a small shark, a few 

 fish greatly resembling tench, (which I killed with 

 an Esquimau birding-dart under the stern) a por- 

 poise and a dolphin. It is not usual for dolphins ^ 

 to come so far north, but we saw two, three 

 bonetas ^ and a few flying-fish ^ in the latitude of 

 49° 15', on the twelfth of August. 



Caubvick's hair falling off, and being matted 

 with the small-pox, I had much difficulty to pre- 

 vail on her to permit me to cut it off, and shave 

 her head. Notwithstanding I assured her that the 



' Scomber scomheus. 

 2 Coryphcena hippurus. 



3 Probably tuna or horse-mackerel Thunntis thynnus. 

 * Exocoetus volitans. 



