CHAPTER IV.
Narrative of Captain Cook's second Voyage round the World.
On the 13th of July, Captain Cook sailed from Plymouth, and on the 29th of the same month anchored in Funchiale Road, in the island of Madeira.

Having obtained a supply of water, wine, and other necessaries at that island, he left it on the 1st of August, and sailed to the southward.

As he proceeded in his voyage, he made three puncheons of beer of the inspissated juice of malt; and the liquor produced was very brisk and drinkable.

The heat of the weather, and the agitation of the ship, had hitherto withstood all the endeavours of our people to prevent this juice from being in a high state of fermentation.

If it could be kept from fermenting, it would be a most valuable article at sea.
The captain, having found that his stock of water would not last to the Cape of Good Hope, without putting his men to a scanty allowance, resolved to stop at St.Jago, one of the Cape de Verd islands, for a supply.