A Voyage to Botany Bay by George Barrington

WE lay here about three weeks, when the sick being pretty well recovered, the ships replenished with water, and loaded with vegetables and fruits of all kinds, the signal was made for sailing, and for the first three or four days we proceeded with a brisk north- easterly wind, when suddenly it became dark and cloudy, with tremendous peals of thunder and vivid flashes of lightning from every part of the horizon, attended with violent squalls of wind, but of no long continuance. At day-break the wind shifted to the south ward, and we had a series of fine weather till we arrived at the Cape of Good Hope, on the twentieth of July, and about sunset came to an anchor in Table Bay.

This being the last port we could touch at for refreshments during the remainder of the voyage, all hands set to work to procure such articles as they might stand in need of, as well for their present consumption, as for their future comfort in the new colony.