Logbook - Page 7

 

Remarks 1810 [1806?]
7 August 1806 Come to Anchor in Simons bay
  24 Mills [miles] from Cap Toun [Cape Town, South Africa], Cape of Good
  hop [Cape of Good Hope] . it is very high land. the
  inhabitence [inhabitants] are mostly Duch [Dutch] Hotentots [Khoikhoi]
  & English Soldirs [soldiers] . every thing is very
  dear here. brought the whole fleet in safe
10 August 1806 Brought a man on bord [board] belongin [belonging] to the
  Glutton Est Indeman [East Indiaman] .  he was goin [going] on
  shore upon a gangbord [gang board] at 10 Oclock
  at night, with his bage [bag] of Cloths [clothes]
  a Bage [bag] of Breed [bread] a pice [piece] of beef & a pice [piece]
  of Pork.  lash'd [lashed] on the Gang bord [board]
  with a pice [piece] of wood for an oar & Singin [singing]
  Rull Britannia [Rule Britannia] as he went
16 August 1806 Sailed from the Cape of Good Hop [Cape of Good Hope] in Company
  with the How [ HMS Howe (1805) {Wikipedia}] , 3 Transport & a Gunbrige [gun brig]
  for the River of Plate [River Plate, South America] to join Sir Home Poppom [Sir Home Popham {Wikipedia}]
 
17 August 1806 Pairted [parted] in a Gail [gale] of wind med [made] the best
  of our way to the River of Plate
15 September 1806 Passed the Cap of St Marys [Cape of St Mary's, Cabo de Santa Maria, now Punta Del Este, Uruguay] this land is low
17 September 1806 Come to Anchor at Mount d Video [Montevideo, Uruguay]
  in the River of Plate, South America
  this river is very wide & is about 400
  Mills [miles] in lenth [length] .  Buona Ayers [Buenos Aires, Argentina] is the
  principle City & lyes [lies] about 100 Mills [miles] farder [further]
  up the River.  our Troops had en Ingagment [engagement]
  about 2 Months befor [before] we came & had the
  place in pofsesion [possession] for three weeks
  but a Renforcement [reinforcement] of Spanish Came &
  tooke [took] it Again & about 13 Hundred
  of our troops Prisioners [prisoners]
   
 
 

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