Anchored the prize near us.

But for our steam we should have been still drifting to the S.W., as the day has been nearly calm throughout.

Fernando de Noronha, in the wayside of the commerce of all the world, is sighted by more ships, and visited by fewer, than any other spot of earth.

It is a broken, picturesque, volcanic rock, in mid ocean, covered with a pleasing coat of verdure, including trees of some size, and the top of the main island is cultivated in small farms, &c.

Awfully hot when the sun shines, and indeed, when he does not shine.