carried away her fore-top-fail-yard. To fupply this lofs we
gave her our fprit-fail-top-fail-yard, which we could fparc,
and Ihe hoified it immediately.
On the 37th fhe again made fignals o f diftrefs, upon which
I brought to, and fent the carpenter on board her, who returned
with an account that flie had fprung a leak under the
larboard cheek forward, and that it was impofiible to do
any thing to it till we had better weather. Upon fpeaking
with Lieutenant Brine, who commanded her, he informed
me that his crew were fickly; that the fatigue o f working the
pumps, and conftantly Handing by the fails, had worn them
down; that their provisions were not good, that they had
nothing to drink but water, and that he feared it would
be impoflible for him to keep company with me except I
could fpare him fome affiftance. For the badnefs o f their
provifion I had no remedy, but I fent on board a carpenter
and fix feamen to afllfi in pumping and working the Ihip.
November. On the eighth o f November, being in latitude 25° 52' S.
Saturdays. ]ongjtu^e 3^" 38' we founded with 160 fathom, but had no
ground: on the ninth, having feen a great number o f birds,
called albatroffes, we founded again with 180 fathom, but
had no ground.
Toeflay ji. On the i ith, having by fignal brought the ftore-fhip under
our fern, I fent the carpenter, with proper afliftants, on
board to Hop the le a k ; but they found that very little could
be done: we then compleated our provifions, and thofe of
the Swallow, from her fiores, and put on board her all
our Haves, iron hoops, and empty oil jars. The next day
I fent a carpenter and fix feamen to relieve the men that
had been fent to afiifl her on the 27th o f Odtober, who,
by this time, began to fuffer much by their fatigue. Several
of her crew having the appearance o f the fcurvy, I fent
2 the
Monday 27*
the furgeon on board her with fome medicines for the fick. 1766.
0 November.
This day, having feen fome albatrofles, turtles, and weeds, 1---- ,---->.
we founded, but had no ground with 180 fathom.
On the 12th, being now in latitude 30 foutli, we began to wednef. 12.
find it very cold ; we therefore got up our quarter cloths,
and fitted them to their proper places, and the feamen put
on their thick jackets. This day we faw a turtle, and feveral
albatrofles, but Hill had no ground with 180 fathom.
We continued to fee weeds and birds on board the Ihip, Toefday 18.
but had no ground till the 18th, when we found a foft
muddy bottom at the depth of 54 fathom. We were now in
lat. 35° 40' S. long. 49° 34' W .j and this was the firfi founding
we had after our coming upon the coafi of Brazil.
On the 19th, about eight o’clock in the evening, we faw Weiner. 19,
a meteor o f a very extraordinary appearance in the north-
eafi, which, foon after we had obferved it, flew off in a horizontal
line to the fouth-wefi, with amazing rapidity: it
was near a minute in its progrefs, and it left a train o f light
behind it fo flrong, that the deck was not lefs illuminated
than at noon-day. This day we faw a great number o f feals
about the Ihip, and had foundings at 55 fathom, with a
muddy bottom. The next day the feals continued, and we ThurHiy
had foundings at 53 fathom, with a dark coloured fand;
upon which we bent our cables.
On the 2if l we had no ground with 130 fathom. Our Friday 2,.
lat. at noon was 370 40'S. long. 51 ° 24' W.
On the 22d we had foundings again at 70 fathom, with Saturday 22.
a dark brown fand, and faw many whales and feals about
the (hip, with a great number o f butterflies, and birds,
among which were fnipes and plover. Our lat. at noon was
38° 53'long. 56° 4 / W.
Our