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watches, finding it sufficiently strong to admit of this arrangment ? 
and took every advantage of the good weather to put the ship in 
prime order for any service. 
Our sick list on the ^6th, as follows : 
William Klear-. John Glasseau, Renj. Hamilton, Levy, Holmes 
Mark Antonio, Thomas Belcher, ThomaS McDonald, Jordan 
Williams ; and of this number only two, to wit, William Klaer and 
Levy Holmes, were incapable of doing duty ; the one from a dis« 
ease in the liver, the other from intermitting head-ache. 
On the 17th, took the advantage of the calm weather to give our 
rigging a good setting up, and in the afternoon discovered a sail to 
the W.S.W. Gave chace to and spoke her about 4 o’clock: she 
proved to be a Portuguese brig from the Brazils bound to Gibraltar 
laden with tobacco; she had been on her passage 52 days, and the 
oniy news she could give us was that an embargo had been laid on 
American vessels in the Brazils on the news of the war. 
On the 20th, in latitude 29° 33' N. and longitude 31° 54' west, 
took the trade wind from the north-east, blowing fresh in squalls, 
with some rain, of which we only succeeded in catching about 6Q 
gallons for the stock. 
22d, at day light in the morning, discovered a sail to windward, 
running down for us; and being nearly in the track of the homeward 
bound Indiamen and outward bound West Indiamen, we calculated, 
largely on a prize, but on speaking her she proved (to our great dis¬ 
appointment) a Portuguese from Lisbon bound to New York, laden, 
with salt. 
On the 23d, we, were honoured by a visit from the gods of the 
ocean, accompanied by Amphitrite and a numerous retinue of imps,, 
barbers, See. Sec. in his usual style of visiting, and in the course of 
the afternoon all the novices of the ship’s company w r ere initiated 
into his mysteries. Neptune, however, and most of his suite, paid 
their devotions so frequently to Bacchus, that before the ceremony 
of christening was half gone through, their godships were unable 
to stand; the business was therefore entrusted to the subordinate 
agents, who performed both the shaving and washing with as little 
regard to tenderness as his majesty would have done. On the 
whole, however, they got through the business with less disorder 
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