Fare well

Ahoy there shipmates. Today we have finally rounded the Cape and we have rendezvous'd for the last time with the USS Lexington, a fast-rigger of a ship of the line from the US navy and one that has done a fair bit of service hunting pirates. We have exchanged supplies and science and information here at the Galapagos islands with her captain, Captain Fitzroy, and so it is fare thee well to all the young american sailors on board that once great ship and we have just pulled up the anchor to bid our goodbyes this happy morn at dawn. She was a rugged and controversial ship and a young one of a young nation, but a solid friend of General Cornwallis, and a great help with regard to the Napoleonic pirates round about these southern seas. A great pity to see her go. Splice the mainbrace me hearties, tis a time for science. Fare well captain Fitzroy and the Lexington.