February 3d we got our smith’s forge on shore, set our coopers to work, and made a little tent for me to have the benefit of the air.  The Duchess had also a tent for their sick men; so that we had a small town of our own here, and every body employed.  A few men supplied us all with fish of several sorts, all very good, in such abundance, that, in a few hours, we could take as many as would serve 200.  There were sea-fowls in the bay, as large as geese:  but eat fishy.  The governor never failed of procuring us two or three goats a day for our sick men; by which, with the help of the greens, and the wholesome air, they recovered very soon of the scurvy; so that Captain Dover and I thought it a very agreeable seat, the weather being neither too hot nor too cold.  We spent our time, till the 10th, in refitting our ships, taking wood on board; and laying in water, that which we brought from England and St. Vincent being spoiled by the badness of the casks.  We likewise boiled up about eighty gallons of sea-lions oil, as we might have done several tons, had we been provided with vessels.  We refined it for our lamps, to save candles.  The sailors sometimes use it to fry their meat, for want of butter, and find it agreeable enough.  The men who worked on our rigging, eat young seals, which they preferred to our ships victuals, & said it was as good as English lamb, though I should have been glad of such an exchange.  We made what haste we could to get all the necessaries on board, being willing to lose no time; for we were informed at the Canaries, that five stout French ships were coming together to those seas.