[93] Frezier mentions seeing such a meteor in latitude 57° 30' S., and longitude 69° W., in 1712.
[94] We passed another on the 8th, which Glennie calculated to be 410 feet high; it was near enough for us to see the waves break on it. In conversing on this subject with the officers since,—for at the time I was indeed unable to think of it,—I find there is reason to think that, instead of an iceberg, we saw land on the 8th. It was seen in the latitude and longitude of an island visited by Drake, marked in the old charts.
[95] On the 25th of May following a solemn mass was performed for the souls of those who had fallen on both sides, at the expense of the Bahians resident at Rio, in the church of San Francesco de Paulo. The cenotaph raised in the church was surrounded by inscriptions, in Latin and Portuguese; one of the most striking is, "Eternal glory to those who give their blood for their country."
("He quha dies for his cuntre
Sal herbyrit intil bewyn be," says Barbour.)
The day was one of those Brazilian rainy days, when it should seem another deluge was coming: but the Prince and Princess were the first at the ceremony.
[96] This gentleman was an officer under Napoleon, in the Spanish war. For some military irregularity, he was dismissed; but pardoned on condition of living in Cayenne, and procuring information for the French government. He left that country, however, and settled in Brazil; where, with the exception of a short time spent in the service of Bolivar, he had lived quietly and respectably till the present juncture.
[97] Of her, see more in the Journal.
[98] Less than twenty thousand pounds sterling a year.
[99] My cousin Mr. Glennie invalided, from the Doris, having broken a blood-vessel.
[100] Don Joam Sesto, 80 guns.—Constituiçam, 56.—Corvette, 10 de Fevreiro, 29.—Active, 22.—Calypso, 22.—Regeneraçaŏ, 22.—A store-ship, 28.—Brig Audaz, 18.—Promptidaŏ, 16.—Smack Emilia, 8.—Conceiçam, 8.