August 2^nd
"Sighted Bahia. One o’clock arrived and anchored on Bahia Roads. Found here HMS Phoebe, Captain James Bythesea, waiting to join the squadron. We have arrived here in the middle of the rainy season; rain day and night."
 

August 3^rd
"Went onshore and visited the town. It seems to be a regular Portuguese looking town, filthy dirty and the people very extortionate. Green beetles and humming birds seem to be the great curios of the place but some of our officers purchased Marmoset monkeys. The town is built on an incline sloping down to the water and looks rather well from the ship."

"Our first Lieutenant invalided and is to go home in the Bristol."
 

August 4^th, 5 am
"All the fleet weighed and proceeded under sail Phoebe in company. Bristol remains at Bahia for four days and then returns to England. Circular came out from the Admiralty allowing beards and moustached to be worn. " ¹