CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 
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latter, are still to be found on the rolls of the navy, and to them, I trust 
that the applause of a grateful country has been only delayed, not 
wholly lost. 
On our arrival home, the health of the prisoner Vendovi had so far 
declined, that it was necessary to place him in the Naval Hospital at 
New York. Every attention was paid him there, but very soon after¬ 
ward he expired. 
The Porpoise and Oregon had, in the mean time, proceeded to Rio 
Janeiro, where they executed their instructions, and having obtained 
the necessary supplies, sailed for the United States. After leaving the 
equator, their route differed but little from that pursued by the 
Vincennes. 
In their deep-sea soundings they found the same low temperatures 
that we had noticed; and in crossing the Gulf Stream, the difference 
of temperature between the surface and at one hundred fathoms was 
but five degrees. Both vessels arrived at New York within a few 
days of each other, and their crews were discharged in the same 
manner as that of the Vincennes. 
CArE OF GOOD HOPE. 
