WHITENS JOURNAL OF A 
{he made the fignal for the fhips to bring to, with their 
heads to the fouth-eaft, 
19th. At day break we made fail, the Supply being a- 
head on the look-out. At eight o'clock fhe made the fig- 
nal for feeing land; which proved to be the iile of Mayo, 
another of the Cape de Verd iflands, lying in lat. 15° 10' N, 
long. 23° W. The Sirius now made the fignal to prepare to 
anchor ; which was followed by one, that the boats from 
the viduallers and tranfports may land, as foon as the fhips 
came to an anchor, without afking permifTion as at TenerifFe^ 
We ran down the eaft fide of the illand, clofe in with the 
fhore, on which we could perceive a high furf, or rather the 
fea, breaking violently among the rocks. The haze ftill con- 
tinued fo thick that we could only obferve the fhore to-be 
rough, craggy, and bold ; and that feveral parts of the 
ifland feemed high and mountainous. At twelve, through 
the haze, faw the ifland of Saint Jago, the principal of the 
Cape deVerd iflands, lying in lat. 14° 54' N. long. 23° 29' W» 
Half after one, the Sirius leading into Port Praya Bay, on 
a fudden brought to, as we imagined, to wait for the ftern- 
moft fhips, which, as they all came up, likewife brought to, 
on 
