VOYAGE 
■ÎO TUB 
WESTERN COAST OF AFRICA. 
On Sunday September the £2d, 1805, his majesty's sloop 
Favourite oot under weijih from St. Helens, abont eleveii 
o'clock, A. M. under the orders of Capt. K. Maxwell, of his 
majesty's ship Arab, with five vessels in company ; arid on the 
24th about seven P. M. we took our departure from the Lizard, 
bearing N. J W. distant about five leagues- It was at first 
understood that we were to proceed to the West Indies, but 
after various orders and equipments, we at length received a 
final one for the African station. , I was now supplied iii my 
department with a double allowance of bark, and sue!', other medi- 
caments as are requisite for a climate so fatal to Europeans as 
that to which we were destined. 
We had now a steady gale with light show ers. The thermo- 
meter stood in general at 6i® ; but on the '27th it dropt to 59"^; 
two degrees of cold being produced by the evaporation of water 
from washing the cabin. And: it must be observed, that the 
thermometer during the course of this voyage and returning in the 
cartel, hung always in the shade. W e were extremely sorry to 
find one of our convoy prove a bad sailer, as it would of course 
impede our progress in the voyage ; her name was the Mary of 
London. The commodore and our vessel alternately took her 
in tow. 
September the '28th, we gave chace to a strange sail, which 
proved to be a Swede bound to the Mediterranean : none but 
those who are acquainted with the disposition of a sailor, can con- 
ceive the disappointment at her not proving a prize, in ïîopes of 
better success, we regained our station. On the 29th it blew so 
bard, that we w'ere obliged to reduce our sails ahîîost to bare 
poles, and although deeply loaded, we were very crank. The 
«ea now ran verv high, yet we spoke two vessels. In the nighl: 
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