We may now consider ourselves in possession of the Trade Winds. The fine Easterly Breeze which set in on Thursday Evening still continuing to blow from the same Quarter -- which enables us to [?] our course North by East -- and going generally at the rate of 5, 6, and 7 Knots. -- our Latd. today is 14. ° 56' South -- and Longd. 38. ° West. Our Voyage from Cape Horn having been so much more longer than was at first expected, our stock of water getting, and Capt. Raine being in want of & Provisions for his own crew, he has determined with my concurrence to touch at St. Salvadore, one of the Portuguese Ports on the Coast of Brazil, and now within about 120 miles of us, in order to obtain water and other Refreshments for the remaining part of the Voyage.

From the distance being so short, we expect, in case the present Wind lasts, to arrive at St. Salvadore in the course of tomorrow. ---

At 1/2 past 4. p.m. we came up with, and spoke to a Portuguese Brig bound from Rio Grande (on Brazil Coast) to St. Salvadore, ladened with Rice, Sugar, & Cheese, being 35 days out from the former Port. -- N.B. We saw this vessel at a great distance directly ahead early this morning.

My man George having reminded me that this was the anniversary of the storming and capture of Seringapatam on the 4th. of May 1799, we all drank a Bumper to the Health of Genl. Baird and the Conquerors of that important Fortress, in which poor George himself was not forgotten.

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