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1768. On Wednefday, the 13th of April, we palled a great quani__
tity o f gulph weed ; and on the 17th, we palled a great deal
Sunday1"^3 more. Oh the 19th, we faw two flocks of birds, andobferv-
Tuefday 19 jng the water to be difcoloured, we thought the ground
might be reached, but, upon founding, could find no bottom.
Sunday 24. At five o’clock in the morning of Sunday the 24th, we
faw the peak o f the Ifland of Pico bearing N. N. E, at the
diftance o f about eighteen leagues. We found, by obferva-
tion, that Fyal lies in latitude 38° 20' N. longitude 28° 30' W.
from London.
Wednef'u No incident worth recording happened till about noon on
the 1 i th o f May, when, being in latitude 48“ 44' N. longitude
70 16' W. we faw a fhip in chace o f a floop, at which fhe
fired feveralguns. We bore away, and at three, fired a gun
at the chace, and brought her to; the Ihip to windward,
being near the chace, immediately fent a boat on board her,
and fopn after, Captain Hammond, of his Majefty’s floop the
Savage, came on board of me, and told me that the vefTel he
had chaced, when he firft faw her, was in company with an
Irifh wherry, and that as foon as they difcovered him to be a
man of war, they took different ways; the wherry hauled
the wind, and the other vefTel bore away. That he at firft
hauled the wind, and flood after the wherry, but finding
that he gained no ground, he bore away after the other
vefTel, which probably would alfo have efeaped, i f I had not
flopped her, for that he gained very little ground in the
chace. She appeared to be laden with tea, brandy, and
other goods, from Rofcoe in France; and though fhe was
fleering a fouth-weft courfe, pretended to be bound to Bergen
in Norway. She belonged to Liverpool, was called the
Jenny, and commanded by one Robert Chriftian. Her
brandy and tea were in fmall kegs and b a g s ; and all ap-
6 pearances
pearances being ftrongly againft her, I detained her, in order
to be fent to England. — ■— J
At half an hour after five, on the 13th, we faw the Iflands Friday 13.
of Scilly; on the 19th, I landed at Haftings in SufTex; and Thurfdiyi9.
at four the next morning, the fhip anchored fafely in the Friday 20.
Downs, it being juft 637 days fince her weighing anchor
in Plymouth Sound. To this narrative, I have only to add,
that the ohjedt of the voyage being difcovery, it was my
conftant practice, during the whole time o f my navigating
thofe parts o f the fea which are not perfectly known, to lie
to every night, and make fail only in the day, that nothing
might efcape me.
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