It will readily be believed, that few of the military found it convenient to purchase sheep, when hay to feed them costs sixteen shillings a hundred weight.
The boarding-houses on shore, to which strangers have recourse, are more reasonable than might be expected.

For a dollar and a half per day we were well lodged, and partook of a table tolerably supplied in the French style.

Should a traveller's stock of tea run short, it is a thousand chances to one that he will be able to replenish it here at a cheaper rate than in England.

He may procure plenty of arrack and white wine; also raisins, and dried fruits of other sorts.

If he dislikes to live at a boarding-house, he will find the markets well stored, and the price of butcher's meat and vegetables far from excessive.
Just before the signal for weighing was made, a ship, under American colours, entered the road, bound from Boston, from whence she had sailed one hundred and forty days, on a trading voyage to the East Indies.