Notes on the West Indies

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LETTER II. Author apprehenfive of fatiguing his friend with tales of delay and disappointment. A jleet of merchantmen arrives at Barbadoes after a Jhort pa-'jage. The heavens and the feat ixclufively sppofed to the convoys of the expedition. Supply ofproviftons andjlock at Barbadoes. Single Jbips of the...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LETTER II. Author apprehenfive of fatiguing his friend with tales of delay and disappointment. A jleet of merchantmen arrives at Barbadoes after a Jhort pa-'jage. The heavens and the feat ixclufively sppofed to the convoys of the expedition. Supply ofproviftons andjlock at Barbadoes. Single Jbips of the convoys Jlitl continue to arrive. George and Bridget reachet Carlijle Bay. This Jhip Jingularly the feat of incident and lifajler. CharacJer of Mac?. Hit adventures and vexations concerning a aw, Barbadoes, March 30. I Fear you will be tired of reading tales ofdifappointmentand uncertainty, which, as I before obferved, would feem to know no end. On the morning of the 28th inft. we faw an, enfign hoifted at the fort, and heard three guns fired; which conftitute the fignal of alarm implying a ftrange fleet to be in fight. It was, immediately, concluded that it, was the Cork convoy, and its arrival was readily explained, by fuppofing it to have put to fea again, quickly after its return to harbour, and to have availed itfelf of the favorable wind which had already brought to us fo many fingle fhips of that divifion. Dr. Cleghorn and myfelf happened to be on our way to the hofpital, and on reaching St. Anne's hill we had a moft fplen- did view of about eighty fhips failing fmooth- ly below us, fpreading their white canvafs along the coaft of the Ifland, as they proceeded towards the harbour. Our expectations now feemed confirmed. It muft be the Cork fleet: and we felt afiured of a fpeedy departure for St. Domingo But our meafure pf vexation was not yet filled. Judge of our difappointment on finding it to be only a fleet of merchantmen Never perhaps was expectation fo often raifed, and fo repeatedly difap- pointed, as regarding the unhappy convoys of this great and threateni..