fokter's journal. 



John Julian 

 George Miller 

 James Walker 

 Dennis Dailey 

 John Hicks 

 Richard Blatham 



John Knight 

 John Harris 

 Thomas Wailey 

 John Nichols 

 Joseph Isles 



To guard more effectually o gainst recapture, I caused the 

 youngest and weakest part of her crew to be sent in her, and 

 retained on board all tlie seamen and strongest men. 



On th€ iSth we set up our rigging, which had become 

 much stretched in consequence of the warm weather, and 

 the larboard rigging particularly so, from carrying sail so 

 l-ong on one tack. 



On the afternoon of the 1 4th made the high peak (called 

 the Pyramid) of the island of Fernando de Noronlia, under 

 the lee bow, and kept plying to v/indward, under easy sail, 

 all night. At midnight, one of the men on the look-out in- 

 formed the officer of the deck, that he had descried a sail 

 under the lee, but it proved to be the peak of the island. 



At day-light bore up for the harbour, disguised the ship 

 as a merchant-man, hoisted English colours, ran close in, 

 and sent the boat on shore with lieutenant Downes in plain 

 clothes, and directed him to inform the governor, that we 

 were the ship Fanny, captain Johnson, from London, via 

 Newfoundland, bound to Rio de Janeiro for a cargo, out 

 sixty days ; that we were short of water, had several of the 

 crew sick with the scurvy^ and were very much in want of 

 refreshments ; but that we could not anchor, as we had lost 

 all our anchors but one, and that our cables were bad. 

 The boat returned, after being absent two hours and a half; 

 and lieutenant Downes informed me that two British fri- 

 gates had left this place the last week ; that they had re- 

 ported themselves to the governor as his Britannic majesty's 

 ships Acasta, of 44 guns, captain Kerr, and the Morgiana, 

 of 20 guns, from England, bound to India ; and that a let- 

 ter had been left by the captain of the Acasta, for sir James 

 Yeo, of his majesty's frigate Southampton, to be sent to 

 England, by the first opportunity. The boat also brought 

 me a small present of fruit from the governor. 



I immediately despatched lieutenant Downes with a pre- 

 sent of porter and cheese to the governor, with many thanks 



