 A month's sail took them to the Island of St. Catherine on the coast of Brazil (today's city of Florianopolis), then around Cape Horn, and straight to Vancouver Island, avoiding the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii).The crew, tired of subsisting on salt meat, caught porpoises, which they called "herring hogs" (p. 19), and sharks, which they considered fishes.The captain shot an albatross with a wingspan of 15 feet (p. 20).