t m May*
Tuefday 26.
Thurfday 28.
Friday 29.
Sunday 31.
June,
Monday 1.
The people who had been recovering from Colds - and
fevers; now began to fall down in the fcurvy,-upon which,
at the furgeoh’s reprefentation, wine was ferved to them:
wort was .alfo made for them o f malt, and each man had
half a pint of pickled cabbage every day; The variation
from 4 to 5 E.
Oh the 26th we faw two grampufes ; on the q8th we faw
another, and the next day feveral birds,' among which was
one about the fize o f afwallow, which fome o f us thought
was a land bird.
Our men now began to look very pale .and fickly, and to
fall down very fall in the fcurvy, notwithftanding all our
care and attention to prevent it. They had vinegar and
muftard without limitation, wine inftead o f fpirits, fweet
wort and falop. Portable foup tyas wffl conftantly boiled in
their peas and oatmeal; their birth and cloaths. were kept
perfectly c lean ; the hammocks were conftantly brought
upon the deck at eight o’clock in the morning, and carried
down at four in the afternoon. Some of the beds and hammocks
were walhed every d a y ; the water was rendered
wholefoine by ventilation, and every part between decks frequently
walhed with vinegar.
On Sunday the 31ft o f May, our longitude, by obfervation,
was 127° 4 / W. our latitude 290 38' S, and the variation, by
azimuth and amplitude, 5 * 9' E.
The next day, at three in the afternoon, our longitude, by
obfervation, was 129° j$'W. andour latitude 19° 34'S, We
had fqually weather, with much lightning and rain, and
faw feveral men of war birds.-
On the 3d, we faw feveral gantlets, which, with the uncertainty
of the weather, inclined u& to hope that land was not
& very.
WedneC 3.
very fardiftant. The next day a turtle fwam clofe by the 1767.
fh ip ; on the yth we faw many birds, which confirmed our. » ^une~ r
hope that fome place o f refreffiment was near, and at i t p’;“arfdily*
o’clock in the forenoon o f the 6th, Jonathan Puller, a fea- Satur‘lay 5-
man, called out from the malt-head,“ Land in the W. N. W.”
At noon it was feen plainly from the; deck, and found to be a
low ifland, at about five or fix leagues diftance. The joy.
which every one on board felt at this difcovery, can be conceived
by thofe only who have experienced the danger, fick-
nefs, and fatigue o f fuch a voyage as. we had performed.
When we were within about five m ile s 'o f this ifland, we
faw another, bearing N. W. by W. About three o'clock in
the afternoon, being very near the ifland that was firft discovered,
we brought to, and I fent Mr. Furneaux,.my'fecond
lieutenant, my firft lieutenant being very ill, with the boats
manned;and armed, to the fihore,' As he approached it, we
faw two canoes put off, and paddle away with great expedition
towards the ifland that lay to leeward. At feven
in the evening the boats returned, and,brought; with them
feveral cocoa-nuts, and a confiderable quantity of fcurvy-
grafs; they brought alfo fome fifli hooks, that were made of
oyfter-fhells, and fome of the lhells o f which they were
made. They reported that they had feen none o f the inhabitants,
but had vilited three huts, or rather fheds, confiding
only o f a roof, nearly thatched with cocoa-nut and palm
leaves, fupported upon polls, and open allround. They faw
alfo feveral canoes building, but found no frefh water, nor
any fruit but cocoa-nuts. They founded, but found no anchorage,
and it was with great difficulty that they got on
fhore, as the furf ran very high. Having received this account,
I flood off and on allnight, and early the next m orn-’ vhitfonlay
ing, I fent the boats out again to- found, with orders, iff
pofiible, to find a place where the ffiip.might come to ah'
D d 2 anchor;