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d s . fell o f the flrudlute, which is afteswards found fo tottering, that i t
foOn either falls down,, or is by adveriaries torn to pieces.
W e fhall therefore confine OurielvCs to the enumeration o f fa<Hs,
and leave the conclufionS to others,, or at. m o d , offer them as„ what
they really are, conjectures..
I. R E S 1J L A R W I N D S’,
W e found withiaand neat Ac-tropics the regular winds,.as other-
navigators had done before us„ In the year 1-772, we left England:
in July, and at Cape Finiflerre, met with a North Eafl wind, which
carried us within a few degrees o f the line, where, towards the latter
end o f Auguft, we had rain and a'S. S i W_ or S.. W .. wind, which
forced us to fail S. E . or S„ E.. by E , On September 8th, when;
we were near the line, the wind came to the South, but in two days-,
more it veered round to S.. S. E . fo that, we could cun S, W . As we
approached the tropic, the wind came mere round to the Ealt to
E . by N . and even N . E.an d we flood S. E . about the end-of Sept.,
having juft puffed the tropic. On the n th , o f October we could
ftand E . by S , or nearly fo, and Eaflward, on the 16th, the wind
being N . and N . by W. O n -the 25th. o f Odober, we found:
the wind coming more Eaflward, though now and thenfor. a fir art
time it blew from the Eafl, fo that we failed brifkly towards the.
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Cape o f Good Hope, and had the fatisfadion to enter Table Bay,
having Had a frefh gale the preceding night. This view o f the
winds during our paffage will fhew at once the extent and the changes
■ of the trade wind's. Wherever one wind fell and another began,
there we had faint breezes and calms, though o f fhort duration.
- In the year 1773, in our run from N ew-Zeeland to O-Taheitee,
we had, on the 20th o f July, a S. E . wind in about 36° South latitude,
which we thought to be the trade wind, though we were
foon undeceived, having many changes o f winds after i t ; and we
■ did not fall in with the true fettled S. E . trade, till Augufl the
7th, in about 19'. South latitude; this wind blew fometimes
frefher, fometimes fainter, efpecially when we came near the iftes,
and it carried us to O-Taheitee on Augull 16 th.
After we left the Society Ifles, we ran towards the Friendly
liles by help o f the South Eafl trade ; though at the approach o f a
hard fhower o f rajn and feme lightning it fhifted to various points j
but we foon recovered the true trade wind, and perhaps the direction
o f the wind was likewife altered by the vicinity o f fame land;
for though we faw no more than one low -ifland in the whole run,
we might pals feveral, at no great diflance, without feeing them,
cither in the night, or on account o f their low fituation; for the next
year we ran a little more North of this courfe and fell in with feve-
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