He only said, that the Spaniards did not appear to be so friendly as the English; and that, in their persons, they approached to some resemblance of his own countrymen.
On the 4th, Captain Cook sailed from Teneriffe, and proceeded on his voyage.

Such was his attention, both to the discipline and the health of his company, that twice in the space of five days, he exercised them at great guns and small arms, and cleared and smoked the ship below decks.

On the evening of the 10th, when the Resolution was at a small distance from the island of Bonavista, she ran so close upon a number of sunken rocks, that she did but just weather the breakers.
The situation of our voyagers, for a few minutes, was very alarming.
In this situation the captain, with the intrepid coolness which distinguished his character, did not choose to sound, as that, without any possibility of lessening, might have heightened the danger.
While our commander was near the Cape de Verde Islands, he had an opportunity of correcting an assertion of Mr.Nicholson with regard to the manner of sailing by those islands, which, if implicitly trusted to, might prove of dangerous consequence.

On the 13th, our navigators arrived before Port Praya, in the Island of St.Jago; but as the Discovery was not there, and little water had been expended in the passage from Teneriffe, Captain Cook did not think proper to go in; but stood to the southward.
In the course of the voyage, between the latitudes of 12 deg.

and 7 deg.
north, the weather was generally dark and gloomy.