Friday i.
Saturday 2.
Sunday 3.
Monday 4.
Tuefday 5.
as well as an feveral other occafions, we experienced'the benefit
of the bulk-heads which we had fixed on the fore-part
of the half-deck, and to the after-part o f the forecaflle.
Notwithftanding this wind was fair, we durft not venture
to put the fhip before it, for if in wearing, any o f thefe enormous
feas had broken on her fide, it would inevitably have
carried away all before it. After home time, however; it
became more moderate, and we then got up our yards and
made fail, fleering N. by W .; and now the men having been
up all night, and being wet to the fkin, I ordered every one
o f them a dram.
By the next morning, the ad of May, the wind came again
to the NAV. and N.N.W. but by this time we had got down
the broken mizen gaff, repaired it as well as we could, got
it up again in its place, and bent the fail to it; but we now
moft fenfibly felt the want o f a forge and iron. .
On the 3d, at day-break, we found the rudder-chain
broken, and upon this occafion we again moft feelingly regretted
the want of a forge; we made, however, the heft
fhift we could, and the next day, the weather being more
moderate, though the wind was ftill contrary, we repaired
our rigging, and the carpenters fixed a new,dead eye where
the old one had been broken; the fail-maker alfo was bufy
in mending the fails that had been fplit.
On the 5th, we Were again brought under our courfes by
a hurricane from the N. by W. and N.N.W. and the fhip was
tolled about with fuch violence that we had no command of
her. During this ftorm, two of our chain-plates were
broken, and we continued toiling in a confufed hollow fea
till midnight, when a light gale fprung up at N.W. which
foon blew very hard; but at two in the morning, we were
again taken right a-head by a fudden and violent fquall at.
9 weft,
Wednef. 6.
weft, which apipnqe threw: alhourfiaiJs-^back, and before yrg
could ge t the fhip round,:iwasivéiiy 'hear qa'rryingialll'by the
board. With tins!: gale we flood‘north, and in.the forenoon
the carpenters-fixed: new chain-plates .to the main fhrouds,
and one toi the fore.-fhrduds,. i»>thei$la!ce,of thofe which had
been broken in the iquall. during the night.: This was another
.oCcafion oo which fit was impoflible notrfo regret thg
wantrof a forge and irpn,- ,
Thé gale'continued in this direction till eight in the morning
Of the ?th,:wheUJ it retürnedtfo the N.Wt With tinfettled
weafheft- On thé-Sth, nf-cameföfouth,- and this'was a fine
day,- the firft we hadfeen after our leaving the Straight o f
Magellan. Our latitude at nödn'was $6° 39' S., and wé were
about five degrees to the weftw-ard'ofiCapeTillar. The next
day we'ïnadè thèiflaiid df Mafafüeï.o,0knci'öh the 10th,‘the
ifland of Juan Ferna&des ::-in the afternoon we gét cldfe-tb
the eallernioft part o f it, and foon after hauledhound the
north end, and opened‘Cumberland Bajo - As Tdid not knehv
that .the, Spaniards , .had fortified, this Aftand, :.I was greatly
furprized mfie^ajeonfiderabie,.number o f men about the
beach, with a houfe and four pieces o f cannon near the
water-fide, and a fort about three hundred yards farther
fröm the fea, juft upon t}ie riling of the hill, with Spanifh
colours flying on the 'tqp o f i.t.; This fort, which is'faced
with Kobe, lias .eighteen or twenty embrafures, and within
it a long,hofife, whicht fuppofed to be barracks for the-gar-,
rifoh: five and twenty or thirty houfes of different kinds
are fcattered round it, and we. .faw much cattle, feeding on
the brow o f the hills, which, feeme.d. tp be. cultivated, as
many fpots were divided,!?)' enclolures from each other; we
faw alfo two large boats lying on the beach,. , The gulfs o f
wind which came right out o f this bay, prevented my going
fo near as I intended, for they were'fo violent as to oblige us
V o l . Ï . T t many
Wedne£. 6,
Thurfday 7,
Friday 9.
Saturday 9,
Sunday 10.