7/29 I should say that it is about five-and-twenty miles away. It is a very bold coast, sir. We ought to have made out the light, but of course it is not very bright at this distance, and there was a slight mist on the water when I came up at eight bells." "I suppose in another forty-eight hours we shall not be far from the southern point of Portugal." "We shall be there, or thereabouts, by that time if the wind keeps the same strength and in the same quarter. That would make an uncommonly good run of it, considering that we were lying twenty-four hours becalmed. If it had not been for that, we should have been only four days from the Start to Saint Vincent." The mate's calculations turned out correct, and at seven in the morning they anchored a mile off Cape Saint Vincent. |