VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES. 
17th. In the morning faw a ftrange fail to the north- 
ward, and at night the Sirius made the fignal for the convoy 
to fhorten fail. 
1 8th. Early this morning the Sirius threw out the Sup- 
ply's fignal to make fail, and look out ahead. She imme- 
<liately obeyed, and at eight o'clock made the fignal for 
feeing land ; which was repeated by the Sirius to the con* 
voy. At eleven we pafTed the Ifle of Sal, in lat. 16° 38' N. 
long. 22° 5' W., and in the evening Bonavifta ; two of the 
Cape de Verd iflands, a clufter of iflands fo called from a cape 
of that name fituated oppofite to* them on the continent of 
Africa. We palTed the latter ifland fo clofe, that we faw 
the breakers which endangered Captain Cook's fhip in his 
laft voyage. It blew at the time pretty frefh, and was fo 
hazy, that we could make no other obfervation, than 
that the land was high, and the fhore (what we could per- 
ceive of it through the haze, for the horizon line did not 
exceed two miles) had a white appearance, as if fand or chalk 
cliffs. At fix in the evening, the Sirius made a fignal for 
the convoy to obferve a clofe order of failing, and to fhorten 
fail for the night; and at twelve, running under an eafy fail, 
