tlle blew fo hard he chuld not get into it, and that
—m-jj hé therefore flood- away to the fouthward. A trh i& tim e l
* TT wasftetritig'fowhwdrd; fbr the weatherbëifig ëxtïemëly
fine, I could fee very far to the northward o f the fituation in
which it is laid down. As I fuppofed it muft lie to the eaft-
ward of us, i f indeed it had any exiftence, I made the Tamar
sfignal to fpread early in the afternoon ; and as the
weather continued to he very' clear, we could fee, between
us, at leaft twenty leagues.. We fleered S. E. by the com-
pafs, hand at night brought toy being by my account in' lati-
Satarday s. tude 47* 18' S. 'The next morning it blew very hard at N. W.
by N. and 1 flill thought the ifland might lie to the eaftward;
I therefore intended to ftand about thirty leagues that way,
and i f Lfound no ifland, to return into the latitude o f 47
again. But a. hard gale coming on, with a great fea, I
brought to about fix o ’clock in the evening under the main-
Sunday 9. fa il; and at fix olclock the next morning, the wind being at
W. S. W. we made fail again under our courfes to the northward.
I now judged myfelf to be about fixteen leagues to
the eaftward o f the track I had run before: Port Defire bore
S.1 8<a? 53 Wi diftant ninety-four leagues 7 and; in this fituation
I faw a great quantity o f rock-weed, and marry birds.
Monday w. We continued to ftand to the northward the next day under
- our courfes, with a hard gale from S. W. to N. W. and a
great fea. At night, being in latitude 46° 50'S:, I wore fhip,
and flood in to the weftward again, our fhips having fpread
every day as far as they could be feen by each other: and
Tuefday 11. on the n th at noon, being now certain that there could be
no fuch ifland as is mentioned by Cowley, and laid down by
Halley under thé name of Pepys’ Ifland, I refolved to ftand
in for the main-, and take in wood and water, of which both
fhips were in great want, at the firft convenient place I could
£ find,
find, efpecial’ly as the feafon was advancing very fail, and 1764- . ' . December. we had no time to lole. From this time we continued to \—
haul in for the land as the winds would permit, and kept a ucfda>' u ’
look-out for the iflands o f Sebald de Wert, which, by all
the charts we had-on board, could not be far from our track:
a great number o f birds were every day about the fhip, and
large whales were continually fwimming by her. The
weather in general was fine, but very cold, and we all
agreed, notwithftanding the hope we had once formed, that
the only difference between the middle o f fummer here,
and the middle o f winter in England, lies in the length of
the days. On Saturday the 15th, being in latitude 50° 33'S. Saturday i5.
longitude 66° 59' W. we were overtaken about fix in the evening
by the hardeft gale atS.W. that I was ever in, with a fea
Hill higher than any I had feen in going round Cape Horn
with Lord Anfon: I expedted every moment that it would
fill us, our fhip being much too deep waifted for fuch a
voyage: it would have been fafeft to put before it under our
bare poles, but .our flock o f frefh water was not fuflicient,
and I was afraid of being driven fo far off the land as not to
be able to recover it before the whole was exhaufted; we
therefore lay to under a balanced mizen, and fhipped many
heavy feas, though we found our fltreen bulk-heads o f infinite
fervice.
The ftorm continued with unabated violence the whole Sunday ,6.
night, but about eight in the morning, began to fubfide.
At ten, we made fail under our courfes, and continued to
fleer for the land till Tuefday the 18th, when, at four in the Tuefday 18.
morning, we faw it from the maft-head. Our latitude was
now 51° 8'S. our longitude 7 10 4'W. and Gape Virgin Mary,
the north entrance o f the Streight of Magellan, boreS. 19°
50'W. diftant nineteen leagues. As we had little or no
wind, we could not get in with the land this day, the
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