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We were therefore induced to prefer the 16 0 56', in the Connoissance isoi. 
des Temps, as being nearer the true longitude of Funchal from Thursday's. 
Greenwich, than the 17 0 6' 15" of the Requisite Tables. 
Every person had returned on board on Friday morning ; and Friday 7. 
a young man, a native of Ireland, who had been sent here sick in a 
French cartel, applying to go the voyage, I ordered him to be 
entered, on the surgeon reporting him to be a fit man for His 
Majesty's service. 
On quitting Funchal Road, we were taken aback, at two 
o'clock, by the east-north-east wind, about two miles off Brazen 
Head. It blew so strong as to make it necessary to clew down all 
the sails ; and until next morning, nothing above close-reefed top Saturday 8. 
sails could be carried with safety. At noon, the log gave 162 miles 
from Funchal; but the cloudy weather did not admit of taking 
observations. 
At daybreak of the 9th the island Palma was in sight, bearing Sunday 9. 
S. 72* E. ten or twelve leagues. Albacores and bonitas now began 
to make their appearance, and the officers and men were furnished 
with hooks and lines, and our harpoons and fiz-gigs were prepared. 
This day I ordered lime juice and sugar to be mixed with the grog; 
and they continued to be given daily to every person on board, until 
within a short time of our arrival at the Cape of Good Hope. 
We carried fair, and generally fresh winds, until the 15th in Saturday u. 
the morning, when St. Antonio, the north-westernmost of the Cape- 
Verde Islands was in sight. At eight o'clock, the extremes bore 
N. 69 0 E. and S. 13 0 W., and the nearest part was distant four miles; 
in which situation no bottom could be found at 75 fathoms. A boat 
was observed near the shore, and our colours were hoisted ; but no 
notice appeared to be taken of the ship. 
The north-west side of St. Antonio is four or five leagues in 
length; and rises abruptly from the sea, to hills which are high 
enough to be seen fifteen, or more leagues from a ship's deck. 
These barren hills are intersected by gullies, which bore marks of 
