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1 7 6 9 . thought an artful attempt to draw me into a breach of my
■ .— , obligation to fecrecy, while he impofed upon me by a
Fn ay ij. that he might not violate his own, was neither liberal
nor juft. As what the boat’s crew told my people, differs in
feveral particulars from the account printed by M. Bougainville,
I ihall not pretend to determine how much o f it is
true; but I was then very forry that the Lieutenant had not
communicated to me the intelligence he received, fuch as
it was, before my gueft left me, and I was now very delirous
to fpeak with him again, but this was impqffible; for though
the French fhip was foul from a long voyage, and we had
ju ft been cleaned, fhe fhot by us as i f we had been at anchor,
notwithftanding we had a fine frefh gale and all our fails fet.
Mitch, on the 7th o f March, we made the Weftern Iflands, and
S u n d a y 7 . -
went between Saint Michael and Tercera; in this fituation
we found the variation 130 36' W. and the winds began to
blow from the S. W. The gale, as we got farther to the
Thorfdayn. weft ward, increafed, and on the 11th, having got to W. N.W.
it blew very hard, with a great fe a ; we fcudded before it
with the forefail only, the foot rope of which fuddenly
breaking, the fail blew all to pieces, before we could get the
yard down; though it was done inftantly. This obliged us
to bring the fhip to, but having, with all poffible expedition,
bent a new forefail, and got the yard up, we bore away
again; this was the laft accident that happened to us during
Tuefflay 16. the voyage. On the 16th, being in latitude 490 15' N. we
Thurfday 1 s. got foundings. On the 18th, I knew by the depth of water
that we were in the Channel, but the wind being to the
F,;,ia7 ,9. northward, we could not make land till the next day, when
S a t a r t b y 2 0 . we faw the Start Point; and on the zorh, to our great joy,
we anchored at Spithead, after a very fine paffage, and a fair
wtnd all the way from- the Cape of Good Hope.
A T A B L E
A
T A B L E
OF TH E
VARIATION of the COMPASS,
As obferved on board o f the S w a l l o w , in her Voyage round the Globe,
in the Years 1766, 1767, 1768, and 1769,
N. B. The days of the month in this Table, are not by the Nautical Account, as is
the cuftom; but, for the convenience, of thofe that are not ufed to that way of
reckoning, are reduced to the Civil Account: A.M. denotes, that the obferva-
tion was made in the forenoon, and P. M. in the afternoon, of that day on the
noon of which the latitude and longitude of the fhip were taken.
T I B E , Latitude in at
" Noon.' ,
Longitude in
at Noon from
London.
Variation. R E M A R K S .
1766. Auguft. North. Englifh Weft. Channel W eft. 22° 30'
30. P.M. 46° 22' 1 3° w 2 0 Septem. 3. P.M. From the Downs to the Illand of 3» ‘ 36 ! 3 40- r 9 04 Madeira.
' 4. A.M. 37 •27 14 12 2 0 x7 Illand Madeira - - 32 34 16 35 l6 <30
17. A.M. 24 33 r 9 22 »5 00
2i. A.M. 17 19 22 * 9 I I *4 The ill and of Sail, m fight, S. by W* k b leagues. »2. P.M. l6 34 22 29 8 20 Was thrh between the Island of Sail and the Ifknd
Porto Praya - - 15 OQ 23 0 0 - 8 OO Illand of Saint Jago.
Oftober 10. P.M. & 34 21 4 ' 5 3 s
1 1 . P.M. 6 40 21 35 6 OO
22. A.M. South. 0 06 25 °3 6 2 3 On the paffage from the iiland of
25. P.M. 4 H - 27 23 4 3° Saint Jago to the Streights of
27. A.M. 7 °3 28 49 3 52 Magellan.
28. P.M. 8 46 29 14 I 50 30. P.M. 10 57 3° °9 01 3°
31. A.M. 12 3° 3° 30 No var. _
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