VOYAGE TO THE SOUTH SEAS.
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CHAPTER XI.
From Isle Saint Helena to England.
Sept. 2.At ten in the morning of the ſecond of September, we anchored in James's Bay, Saint Helena, and found riding there an outward-bound Eaſt-Indiaman and an American brig, from the Cape of Good Hope to Boſton. I waited on the Governor, who received me with great politeneſs and gave me a general invitation to his houſe. The ſame civility I alſo received from the Lieutenant Governor, and was offered a ſupply of everything I wanted from the Company's Stores. I now became acquainted with the war between Great Britain and France; but it was very uncertain when a convoy would arrive. I determined, therefore, as my veſſel was a very fine ſailer, to make my ſtay here as ſhort as poſſible; and accordingly,
