J. Giles Powell

“ The wood near the shore, and for several miles up the River, is worth but little, being short and crooked, and thus unfit for building; but the further you proceed up the country, so much the better is the timber in quality. ”

“ Some of the strong ones will fly nearly 100 yards at a flight, and that (it is said) when they are pursued by large fish of prey. We proceeded for a fortnight, and only saw one shark and some whales, together with some other large fish; no one on board knew what they were. Then there was a dead calm for ten days, and an uproar between some of the steerage passengers and sailors. Two of the former were put in irons for insolence to the captain and ill-behaviour to the sailors: they were thus confined for forty-eight hours. ”

“ A small American brig was laying here, waiting for a cargo of salt, with which this island abounds, and is shipped from hence to all parts of the world : there is no other article of commerce or produce, for the inhabitants procure all the supplies they want from St. Jago, the chief of the Cape de Verdes. It is inhabited principally by the Portuguese, and the natives are numerous, but very indolent and greatly addicted to pilfering; the former are clean in their habits, subtle, jealous, and passionate. The natives are tall and stout made, with swarthy complexions, round heads, blunt noses ”

“ The "charter party" of the vessel would have been infringed—if any accident had happened during the remainder of the voyage, nothing could have been recovered under the policy of insurance, and the owners might, perhaps, have been ruined by the Captain's good nature to the passengers.↑ Although the wreck of the Marquis of Anglesea was a severe blow to the Colony at the time, it will in the end terminate in its advantage—it will tend to cause the roadstead, and, indeed the whole coast, to be carefully and accurately surveyed, and thus cause succeeding vessels to be piloted with greater safety. ”

“ If my brother follows me, he cannot be too strongly reminded that it is very improper for any passenger to interfere with the sailors; let him be civil to them at all times when obliged to speak to them, but to avoid associating or entering into friendly conversation with them, especially when they are upon duty. ”

“ It is to be feared that several of them will not succeed in the Colony, so you must prepare to receive dismal accounts from those who find they must work for their bread, and who, doubtless, will be imposed upon by "the knowing ones," who are already arrived. ”

“ It is a most grand, awful, and beautiful sight. We did not see a vessel till we arrived in the Bay. She was a large heavy ship, and seemed to labour very much, and no doubt our's did the same. When the sea became so rough, most of the passengers retired below decks, but I was determined to stay it out as long as possible, in order to prevent sea-sickness, and did for a long time, by assisting the sailors at the lower-ropes, holding the head of one of the hawsers upon deck, &c. ”

“ One adventurer has taken out a man, who has been twenty years in the marines, as his bailiff and factotum. Knowing me to be a farmer, several of the passengers are applying for my opinion and advice upon certain agricultural operations ”