tude 350 50' S. and found the weather as cold as it is at the
fame feafon in England, although the month o f November <---- >
here is a fpring month, anfwering to our May, and we were ue 3°'
near twenty degrees nearer the line :■ to us, who within little
more than a week had fuffered intolerable heat, this change
was moft feverely fe lt: and the men, who fuppofing they were
to continue in a hot climate during the whole voyage, had
contrived to fell not only all their warm clothes, but their
bedding, at the different ports where we had touched, now
applied in great diltrefs for flops, and were all furniflied for
the climate.
On Friday the 2d of November, after adminiftering the November,
proper oaths to the Lieutenants of both fliips, I delivered Fnday z‘
them their commiflions; for till this time they a cited only
under verbal orders from me, and expected to receive their
commiflions in India, whither they imagined we were bound.
.We now began to fee a great number o f birds about the
fliip, many of them very large, o f which fome were brown
and white, and fome black: there were among them large
flocks of pintadoes, which are fomewhat larger than a
pigeon, and fpotted with black and white. On the 4th, we Sundays
faw a great quantity of rock weed, and feveral feals: our
latitude was 38° S3' S., longitude 51° W.; the variation
13° E .: the prevailing winds here were wefterly, fo that being
continually driven to the eaftward, we forefaw that it
would not be eafy to get in with the coaft o f Patagonia. On
the 10th, we obferved the water to change colour, but we ' Saturday 1®.
had no ground with one hundred and forty fathom: our latitude
was now 41° 16' S .; our longitude 5s° 17' W .; the variation
was 18° 20' E. The next day we flood in for the land
till eight in the evening, when we had ground o f red fand
with forty-five fathom. We fleered S. W, by W. all night, sim%u,
V ol. I. G and