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Discovery at the Cape of Good Hope Nov. ye 23/76
My Dear Sir,
Here I am hard and fast moor'd alongside my old friend Capt Cook so that our battles with the Israelites cannot now have any ill effects upon our intended attack on the North Pole. I think I acquainted you from Plymouth on the first of August that I was getting under way, I then got a good outset with a fresh Easterly breeze and made a very good passage to within a few leagues of this Land without any kind of accident befalling us, but the loss of the Corporal of Mariners by unfortunately falling overboard soon after we had enter'd the Southern Hemisphere.
We had a little of the small and abundance of the French Pox among us at our sailing, but all hands were fairly cleans'd and perfectly healthy at our Arrival here. The Sour Crout and Portable Soup with now and then a few Albetrosses [Albatrosses] we find a most salutary diet. I made this land on the 30th of October and shou'd have been in with all facility the next day, but a confounded Gale from the SE sprung up & blew