Teneriffe to C.Verde IslandsThese, like the last two days have rapidly glided past...
... with nothing to mark their transit. The weather has been light and to sailors very annoying: all the 15th we were tacking about the NW end of St Jago, making so little way from the effects of a strong current, that after some hours we scarcely got on a mile. Some few birds have been hovering about the vessel and a large gay coloured cricket found an insecure resting place within the reach of my fly-nippers. He must at the least have flown 370 miles from the coast of Africa.
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