88 Watering-place at Bahia ; 
and being confirm’d in this their Opinion 
by the Portuguefe Pilots of the European 
Ships, with whom feveral of ray Officers 
converfe'd much, and who were them- 
fefves as ignorant that thefe were only 
Coafting Trad^- Winds (themfelves going 
away before them, in their return home- 
wards, till they crofs the Line, and fo ha- 
ving no experience of the Breadth of them) 
being thus poffefs’d with a Conceit that 
we could not Sail from hence till September-, 
this made them ftill the more reinifs in 
their Duties, and very liftlefs to the get- g 
ting Things in a readinefs for our Depar- 
ture. However I was the more diligent 
my Self to have the Ship ferub’d, and to 
fend my Water-Casks affiore to get them 
trim’d, my Beer being now out. I went 
alfo to the Governor to get my Water 
fill’d ; for here being but one Watering- 
place (and the Water running low, now 
at the end of the Dry Seafon) it was al- 
ways fo crouded with the European Ships 
Boats, who were preparing to be gone, 
that my Men could feldom come nigh it, 
till the Governor very kindly feiu an Of- 
ficer to clear the Water- place for my Men, 
and to flay there till my Wates Casks were 
ail full, whom I fatisfied fop his Pains. 
Here 1 alfo got Aboard 9 or 10 Tun of 
Ballaft, and made my Boatfwam fit the 
