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CHAP. X. 



THE AUTHOR SETS SAIL FROM GRAVESEND, AND ARRIVES 

 AT PERNAMBUCO. — STATE OF RECIFE. — JOURNEY TO 

 BOM JARDIM WITH A CAPITAM-MOR, AND RETURN TO 

 RECIFE. 



A T the commencement of the winter my 

 friends again recommended a return to a 

 more temperate climate than that of England ; 

 and therefore understanding that the Portuguese 

 ship Serra Pequeno was upon the point of sailing, 

 I took my passage in her. She was lying at 

 Gravesend, and on the 4th of October, 1811, 

 I embarked again for Pernambuco. 



Contrary winds detained the ship at Ports- 

 mouth for about six weeks. On the 20th No- 

 vember, the wind came round to the northward 

 and eastward, and the signal guns from the ships 

 of war, appointed as convoys, awakened us. All 

 was bustle and confusion at Covves, where great 

 numbers of persons, belonging to the ships, who 

 were circumstanced as we were, had stationed 

 themselves. In a few hours the vessels were 

 under weigh, and before the night closed in, all 

 of them had cleared the Needles. The Serra 

 Pequeno and other Portuguese ships had taken 



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