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After speaking the Carolina, on the 21st August, nothing occurred to break the monotony of our life until
Friday, September 5th, when we saw a sail on our weather (starboard) beam.47 She proved to be a brig under English colors, and passing under our stern, reported herself as forty-nine days from Buenos Aires, bound to Liverpool. Before she had passed us, "sail ho! " was cried again, and we made another sail, far on our weather bow, and steering athwart our hawse. She passed out of hail, but we made her out to be an hermaphrodite brig, with Brazilian colors in her main rigging. By her course, she must have been bound from Brazil to the south of Europe, probably Portugal.