New Voyages and Travels Author:Richard Phillips 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: TRAVELS THE BRAZILS. CHAPTER I. Voyage from England to Rio de Janeiro. T3RAZIL, to which a number of travellers have recently been - attracted, has t... more »he advantage of being separated from Europe by a sea comparatively tranquil. At some periods, particularly at the equinoxes, that immense ocean is certainly subject to Jtorms, but they are less dangerous than in other quarters, as for example ; in the neighbourhood of the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn. I left London at the most favourable season, and had therefore reason to anticipate an agreeable voyage. -While our ship, the Janus, of 320 tons, dropped down the Thames, the weather was excellent. The morning of the second day promised a favorable wind, and we passed Margate, got round the North Foreland, entered the Channel, and towards evening anchored in the Downs, off Deal. Whilst we lay at anchor, the captain took on board fresh beef and sea stock of every kind. On the first change of wind we sailed round the South Foreland, under convoy of the Albatros brig, commanded by captain Harrison. The wind, however, became unfavourable, and we were obliged to put back to our old anchoring ground off Deal. During the night a severe gale arose, and blew with such violence that it was found necessary to keep a great part of the hands on deck: the sky became gradually more and more overcast, till at length the South Foreland was almost totally obscured. The yards were struck and braced round to the wind. For several days the storm continued raging with more or less violence, and gave Voyages and Travels, No. 3, Vol. III. B - ' the passengers, who had now for the first time become acquainted with the uncertain element on which we were embarked, no very agreeable foretaste of the pleasures of a sea-life. At length, whe...« less