304 ARRIVAL AT LIVERPOOL. 



lei of the Cape from south-south-west to north- 

 north-east ; St. Helena being the centre, and Ca- 

 meroons and Tristan da Cunha the extremities.* 



The incidents of a winter passage home with 

 a sickly crew can afford little to interest, and 

 I shall merely state, that after leaving Fernando 

 Po I encountered adverse winds and currents 

 until I reached Annabona, off which I lay-to for 

 two hours. On the 28th of November, having 

 been thirty days in beating down the African 

 coast, we found ourselves in the south-east trade- 

 wind ; on the 30th of December we made Tus- 

 kar lighthouse in the St. George's Channel, and 

 on New-year's Day arrived in Liverpool com- 

 pletly worn out, having encountered nothing but 

 gales of wind from the time we left the north- 

 east trade. 



On the 4th of December we committed to the 

 deep the body of William Davies, one of the 

 men belonging to the Quorra, who was seized 

 with madness three days after leaving Fer- 

 nando Po ; and on Christmas Day, one of our 

 best hands was disabled by a fall from the main- 

 topsail yard-arm, while taking in the third reef. 



* All the Atlantic islands are said to be of volcanic origin. 



