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broth and pease; and when we left the place we carried away enough of it to serve us a week. On the 28th, at half an hour after twelve we weighed and put to sea; at half an hour after six in the evening the peak of Fuego bore W. N. W. distant 12 leagues, and in the night the burning mountain was very visible. This day I ordered hooks and lines ro be served to all the ship’s company, that they might catch fish for themselves; but at the same time I also ordered that no man should keep his fish more than four and twenty hours before it was eaten, for I had observed that stale, and even dried fish, had made the people sickly, and tainted the air in the Ship.
On the first of October, in lat. 10 ° 37’ N. we lost the true trade-wind, and had only light and variable gales; and this day we found that the ship was set twelve miles to the northward by a current; on the third we found a current run S. by E. at the rate of six fathom an hour or about twenty miles and a half a day: on the seventh we found the ship 19 miles to the southward of her reckoning.
On the 20th our butter and cheese being all expended, we began to serve the Ship’s company with oil, and I gave orders that they should also be served with mustard and vinegar once a fortnight during the rest of the voyage.
On the 22d we saw an incredible number of birds, and among the rest a man of war bird, which inclined us to think that some land was not more than 60 leagues distant: this day we crossed the equator in longitude 23° 40’ W.
On the 24th I ordered the ship’s company to be served with brandy, and reserved the wine for the sick and convaIescent. On the 26th the Prince Frederick made signals of distress, upon which we bore down to her, and found that she had
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© Derived from Volume I of the London 1773 Edition: National Library of Australia call no. FERG 7243, page 367, 2004
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