4 Augujl 1748. 



and the German ocean has on the contrary 

 fhort and broken waves. 



Whenever an animal is killed on board 

 the fliip, the failors commonly hang fome 

 freih pieces of meat for a while into the 

 fea, and it is faid, it then keeps better. 



Auguft the 15th. The fame fwell of the 

 fea flill continued, but the waves began to 

 fmooth, and a foam fwimming on them 

 was faid to forebode in calm weather, a 

 continuance of the fame for fome days. 



About noon a north eafterly breeze 

 fprung up, and in the afternoon it blew 

 more, and this gave us a fine fpedacle; for 

 the great waves rolled the water in great 

 flieets, in one diredion, and the north eaft- 

 erly wind curled the furface of thefe waves 

 quite in another. By the beating and dafli- 

 ing of the waves againft one another, with a 

 more than ordinary violence, we could fee 

 that we pall'ed a current, whofe direction 

 the captain could not determine. 



Auguft the i6th— 2ift. The fame fa- 

 vourable breeze continued to our great com- 

 fort and amazement, for the captain ob- 

 ferved that it was very uncommon to meet 

 with an eafterly or north-eafterly wind be- 

 tween Europe and the Azores (which the 

 failors call the Wefiern IJlands) for more 

 than two days together; for the more com- 

 mon 



