On The 18th Of June We Saw The Most Northerly Of The Cape De Verd Islands,
At Which Time The Commodore Gave The Fleet To Understand, By Signal,
That His Intention Was To Touch At Some Of Them.
The following day we made
St. Jago, and stood in to gain an anchorage in Port Praya Bay.
But
The baffling winds and lee current rendering it a matter of doubt
whether or not the ships would be able to fetch, the signal for anchoring
was hauled down, and the fleet bore up before the wind. In passing along them
we were enabled to ascertain the south end of the Isle of Sal
to be in 16 deg 40 min north latitude, and 23 deg 5 min west longitude.
The south end of Bonavista to be in 15 deg 57 min north, 23 deg 8 min west.
The south end of the Isle of May in 15 deg 11 min north, 23 deg 26 min west;
and the longitude of the fort, in the town of Port Praya,
to be 23 deg 36 1/2 min west of Greenwich.
By this time the weather, from the sun being so far advanced in the
northern tropic, was become intolerably hot, which, joined to the heavy rains
that soon after came on, made us very apprehensive for the health of the fleet.
Contrary, however, to expectation, the number of sick in the ship
I was embarked on was surprisingly small, and the rest of the fleet were
nearly as healthy.
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