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Tuesday
This day very pleasant with light winds
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Wednsday
This day very light winds with the Cape De Vird
Island in sight right a head
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Thursday
We have ben becalmed all this dan in sight the Island
of At Antoing
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Friday
This day good breaze but a head two sail in sight
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Saturday
Very lght winds nothing in sight
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Sunday
This day light winds part of the day have ben trying
to see the land all day but it is thick raised it just
before four Oclock John calls it Fogo I began to think
we had writen our letters for nothing he entended
to have stoped at St Jago but with the wind we
have had he could not fetch it and it is very uncertain
if we can get in here near enough to land yet
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Monday
and I have ben on shore two days at Brarva and a harde
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Tuesday place it is to we left thare two men one boatsearer a Portague and
got another in his place we also left Hopkins to be sent
home we could not get much for they ware almoste in
a state of starvation and what they did have they asked
very high for we got a fiew little [flig?] frames half dozen
bunches of bananers some orenges some very small water
melons a fiew pumpkins two buckets ful of sweet potato
and some sugar cane which was about all we could get
I stayed all night and slept on the ground with a straw
mat and a sheat under me and a chare turned down for
a pillow Johns pillow was a log of wood, they had
not a partacal of bread of eney kind to eat, we left
the ship early in the morning we could not get eney
thing to eat until night when they gave us for super
boiled beaf liver and kitneys and some sweet potatoes boiled
with them and nothing else in the morning for break
fast we had some beaf as near par boiled as eney thing I
can think of and some more potatoes. this was sut on a
bench and for us to set on each end with two knives
and forks with not a dish except the two the potatoes
and meat was in this they sayed was the best they
we wated until we got on bard for the next meal
could do for us we got four formast hands from here
which was at about seven in the evening
so I have sean enough of Brarvo thare was another