quickly 2 anchors; and I had lost a small one. The island Fogo shows
itself from this road very plain, at about 7 or 8 leagues distance; and
in the night we saw the flames of fire issuing from its top.


CHAPTER 2.

SOUTH OF THE LINE TO BRAZIL.

THE AUTHOR'S DELIBERATION ON THE SEQUEL OF HIS VOYAGE AND DEPARTURE FROM
ST. JAGO.

Having despatched my small affairs at the Cape Verde Islands I meditated
on the process of my voyage. I thought it requisite to touch once more at
a cultivated place in these seas, where my men might be refreshed, and
might have a market wherein to furnish themselves with necessaries: for,
designing that my next stretch should be quite to New Holland, and
knowing that after so long a run nothing was to be expected there but
fresh water, if I could meet even with that there, I resolved upon
putting in first at some port of Brazil, and to provide myself there with
whatever I might have further occasion for. Beside the refreshing and
furnishing my men I aimed also at the inuring them gradually and by
intervals to the fatigues that were to be expected in the remainder of
the voyage, which was to be in a part of the world they were altogether
strangers to: none of them, except two young men, having ever crossed the
Line.

HIS COURSE, AND THE WINDS, ETC. IN CROSSING THE LINE.

With this design I sailed from St. Jago on the 22nd of February with the