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live flock; ordered a quantity of wine from Mr. M‘Carrick, 1776. 
the contractor, and made an agreement with the mailer of Au ^ utl ' 
a Spanilh boat to fupply us with water, as I found that we 
could not do it ourfelves. 
The road of Santa Cruz is lituated before the town of the 
fame name, on the South Eaft lide of the iiland. It is, as I 
am told, the principal road of Teneriffe, for fhelter, capa¬ 
city, and the goodnefs of its bottom. It lies entirely open 
to the South Eaft and South winds. But thefe winds are 
never of long continuance ; and, they fay, there is not an 
inftance * of a fhip driving from her anchors on Ihore. 
This may, in part, be owing to the great care they take in 
mooring them; for I obferved, that all the fhips we met 
with there, had four anchors out; two to the North Eaft, 
and two to the South Weft; and their cables buoyed up w r ith 
calks. Ours fuffered a little by not obferving this laft pre¬ 
caution. 
At the South Weft part of the road, a ftone pier runs out 
into the fea from the town, for the convenience of loading 
and landing of goods. To this pier, the water that fupplies 
the Ihipping is conveyed. This, as alfo what the inhabit¬ 
ants of Santa Cruz ufe, is derived from a rivulet that runs 
from the hills, the greateft part of which comes into the 
town in wooden fpouts or troughs, that are fupported by 
llender polls, and the remainder doth not reach the fea; 
though it is evident, from the ftze of the channel, that 
* Though no fuch inftance was known to thofe from whom Captain Cook had 
this information, we learn from Glas, that feme years before he was at Teneriffe, al~ 
mofi all the Jhipping in the road were driven on Jhore. See Glas’s Hijh of the Canary 
Ifands , p. 235. We may well fuppofe the precautions now ufed, have prevented 
any more fuch accidents happening. This will fufficiently juftify Captain Cook’s ac¬ 
count. 
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