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The Calcutta and Ocean anchored in Teneriffe Roads May 16, 1803. Here met a Spanish Ship-of-War, and exchanged public and private civilities. The authorities and the inhabitants treated the voyagers with great hospitality. The ships left Santa Cruz on the 20th of the same month, and made Rio de Janeiro on the 20th June. Here they remained until the 17th of July, when they again got under weigh for Simon's Bay, Cape of Good Hope, where the Calcutta anchored August 12. My good, most hospitable old friend, thus notes their departure:—