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board of those vessels which do not carry chro- 

 nometers ; the calculation of longitude without 

 their assistance being of course rendered ex- 

 tremely liable to error. At day-break, it was 

 discovered that we were somewhat to the north- 

 ward of Olinda. We entered the port about 

 nine o'clock, and came to anchor in the lower 

 harbour called the Poco. 



The Serra Pequeno is one of the heavy deep- 

 waisted Brazil ships, requiring a great number 

 of hands to manage her. The business of the 

 ship was carried on in a manner similar in almost 

 all points to that which is practised on board of 

 British merchant-vessels ; there was however 

 less cleanliness observed, and more noise was 

 made. The second officer, who is called in the 

 British merchant-service the mate, bears in Por- 

 tuguese vessels that of pilot ; and the regula- 

 tions of their marine confine him to the naviga- 

 tion of the ship, giving up to an inferior officer 

 the duty of attending to the discharging or 

 stowage of the hold when loading or unloading, 

 and all other minutise of the affairs either at sea 

 or in a harbour. 



I was received on shore by all those persons 

 with whom I had before had the pleasure of 

 being acquainted, with the same friendliness 

 which I always experienced at Pernambuco. Se- 

 veral English gentlemen offered me an apartment 

 m their houses, until I obtained one of my own. 



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