VOYAGE TO 
CHAPTER 
IV. 
Attempt to put in at Fort Fray a — ReUnqtiiJhed~Weather-—Sail for 
Rio de yaneiro — Feafons for touchijtg at a South American port — » 
The Fleet pajjes the Line — Arrives at Rio de faneiro — Account of 
that F lace— Traif anions there — Departure » 
EGETABLES not having been fo plentiful at 
Santa Cruz as to afford a fufiicient fupply, it 
was the intention of Governor Phillip to anchor for 
about twenty-four hours in the Bay of Port Pray a. 
The iflands on this fide of the Atlantic, feem as if ex- 
prefsly placed to facilitate the navigation to and from 
the Cape of Good Hope : by offering to veffels, without 
uny material variation from their courfe, admirable 
ftations for fupply and lefrefliment. About latitude 40, 
north, the Azores; in 33, the Madeiras; between 29 
and 27, the Canaries; aixl between 18 and 16, the 
Iflands of Cape Verd, fucceflively offer themfelves ta 
the voyager, affording abundantly every fpecies of ac- 
commodation his circumftances can require. On the 
Southern iide of the Equator, a good harbour and 
abundance of turtles give fome confequence even to the 
little 
