. Capt. J. D. Winchester's experience on a voyage from Lynn, Massachusetts, to San Francisco, Cal., and to the Alaskan gold fields .... n into Bahia forwater, so we shaped our course for that place, leaving afair wind that gave us a days run of one hundred andninety miles ; this change helped lengthen our sailed along in beautiful weather, and soon made theisland of Fernando Noromah,—this was on Christmas not like our Christmas at home, we felt overjoyedat the prospect of soon having plenty of good, pure waterto drink. 64 TO THE ALASKAN GOLD FIELDS. The island of Fernando
. Capt. J. D. Winchester's experience on a voyage from Lynn, Massachusetts, to San Francisco, Cal., and to the Alaskan gold fields .... n into Bahia forwater, so we shaped our course for that place, leaving afair wind that gave us a days run of one hundred andninety miles ; this change helped lengthen our sailed along in beautiful weather, and soon made theisland of Fernando Noromah,—this was on Christmas not like our Christmas at home, we felt overjoyedat the prospect of soon having plenty of good, pure waterto drink. 64 TO THE ALASKAN GOLD FIELDS. The island of Fernando Noromah was a great rock, pro-truding up out of the sea, and reminding one of a giantcathedral, with a long spire pointing upwards a distanceof five hundred feet. This, indeed, was a wonderful rock ;there seemed to be but the one landing, a little inlet,where I could discern a few white cottages. This islandbelongs to the Brazilian government, and a penal colonyresides there. As we sailed by, Carliff tried to make asketch of the great rock, to show that he had seen thisone, if he had missed a sight at St. Pauls, which he began. THE ISLAND OF FERNANDO NOROMAH, BRAZIL. to believe was only fiction. We sailed past this island,and soon began to drop it out of sight, and were now near-ing Bahia. On the twenty-ninth of the month we enteredthe harbor of All Saints Bay, and anchored under thefort, which fired a gun at sundown that nearly shook offour hats. The quarantine flag was placed on our fore-cross-trees, and when the doctor got ready he came onboard. Mr. Hooper said that he could talk Spanish, so hewas delegated to talk with the doctor, who could not speakor understand our language. The doctor would not comeon board, because the Diver had no gangway steps, but THE LONG VOYAGE COMMENCED. 65 stood in his boat with his trusty blacks around him, armedwith cutlasses. He was shown the vessels papers ; themasters name was Sheems D. Winchist. No, Winches-ter. He tried it again, Winchi
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