212 EXPEDITION UNDER LIEUT.-GOV. COLLINS. 



to Mr. Hurris, of JS ewcastle, and commanded by Captain 

 Transport John Mertho. The stores, exclusive of provisions, 

 Ttf a' ^^™^' amounted to the value of £8047* ; the freight and pro- 

 1803. ' bable demurrage were put at £2568; total, £10,615. 

 The remainder of the civil establishment, seven in num- 

 ber ; two of the ojSicers of the Royal Marines (Lieuts. 

 J. M. Johnson and Edward Lord) ; and the 13 free 

 settlers and their families, were passengers on board the 

 Ocean. 



On Sunday, 24th April, 1803, the Calcutta and the 

 Ocean left Spithead in company, and three days later 

 took their final departure from the Isle of Wight. For 

 the events of the voyage Mr. Knopwood's diary is our 

 principal- source of information. f The diary is taken 

 for the most part from the ship's log ; and the chaplain, 

 while he tells lis a great deal about the ports at which 

 they touched, and about the dinners and amusements 

 which they enjoyed at those places, says nothing about 

 the condition of the convicts, and but little of the in- 

 cidents of the voyage. The ships touched at TenerifFe 

 and at Rio de Janeiro, where they stayed three weeks. 

 Oif the Island of Tristan d' Acunha the Ocean was lost 

 sight of in a storm, and the Calcutta put into Simon's 

 Bay, Cape of Good Hope, where she remained a fort- 

 night. The good chaplain was a man who dearly loved 

 good company and genial society, and from the fond way 

 in which he lingers over the delights of Rio and the 

 Cape, at both of which he managed to have a very good 

 time, we can judge how irksome he must have found the 

 long sea life of live months. Though well on in middle 

 age he was still susceptible, for at Rio he remarks of the 

 Convent de Adjuda, which received as boarders young 

 ladies who had lost their parents : — " This I frequently 

 visited, where I conversed with a very beautiful young 

 lady named Antonia Januaria. Her polite attention I 

 shall not easily forget, having received great friendship 

 from her, and should I ever return there again shall be 

 happy to see her." And a few days later he writes : — 

 " 1 visited De Adjuda for the last time. I saw Antonia 

 this eve at 5, and we took leave of each other with regret. 

 Vale !" 



It is so seldom that the chaplain indulges in sentiment 



* In the list of stores are the followmg items :— Ironmongery, 

 £2525 ; clothing, &c., £1930 ; naval stores, £723 ; carts and im- 

 plements of husbandry, £500; medical and hospital stores, £1380; 

 six pipes port wine, £282. 



t Mr. Labilliere discovered the log book of the Calcutta at 

 Deptford Dockyard, and gives ecctracts from it in his book. 



