If he dislikes to
live at a boarding-house, he will find the markets well stored, and the
price of butcher's meat and vegetables far from excessive.
Just before the signal for weighing was made, a ship, under American
colours, entered the road, bound from Boston, from whence she had sailed
one hundred and forty days, on a trading voyage to the East Indies. In
her route, she had been lucky enough to pick up several of the inferior
officers and crew of the Harcourt East-Indiaman, which ship had been
wrecked on one of the Cape de Verd Islands. The master, who appeared
to be a man of some information, on being told the destination of our
fleet, gave it as his opinion, that if a reception could be secured,
emigrations would take place to New South Wales, not only from the old
continent, but the new one, where the spirit of adventure and thirst for
novelty were excessive.
CHAPTER VII.
The Passage from the Cape of Good Hope to Botany Bay.
We had hardly cleared the land when a south-east wind set in, and,
except at short intervals, continued to blow until the 19th of the
month; when we were in the latitude of 37 deg 40 min south, and by the
time-keeper, in longitude 11 deg 30 min east, so that our distance from
Botany Bay had increased nearly an hundred leagues since leaving the
Cape.
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