The fishing-boats we met with in Mount's Bay are not only very picturesque, with their brown-tanned sails, but are amongst the finest to be found anywhere; and they often ride out gales in which larger vessels might founder.  Their plan is, when caught in a heavy sea, to form a sort of breakwater of planks and spars, under the lee of which they ride with sufficient scope of cable.  We were told of one, with a crew of five men, which performed a journey to Australia, having touched at the Cape of Good Hope for water and fresh provisions.  Since then, several small craft, with only a couple of men on board, have crossed to America.  On one occasion, a man, with his wife, came from the United States to England; but they both suffered severely from the privations to which they were exposed.