C H A P . V.
TChe Courfe back from Port Famine to Falkland’s IJlands^
with fome Account o f the Country.
WE weighed anchor at four o’clock in the morning, 1765.
nnd worked to windward out of the harbour: the v
wind continued contrary at N. N. E. till about one o’clock FrKiay
the next day, when it fliifted to W.S. W. and blew a frefh Saturday*,
gale. We fleered N. W. by N. four leagues, and then three
leagues north, between Elizabeth and Bartholomew iflands1
we then fleered from the iflands N. by E. three leagues, to
the fecond Narrow; and fleered through N. E. i E. continu-,
ing the fame courfe from the fecond Narrow to the firfl,
which was a run o f eight leagues. As the wind flill continued
to blow frefh, we fleered through the firfl Narrow
againfl the flood, in the direction o f N. N. E.; but about ten
o’clock at night, the wind dying away, the flood fet us back
again into the entrance o f the firfl Narrow, where we were
obliged to anchor, in forty fathom, within two cable’s length
o f the fhore. The tide flows here, at the full and change o f
the moon, about two o’clock, and runs full fix knots an
hour.
At one o’clock the next morning, we weighed, with a light Sunday 6,
northerly breeze; and about three, we palled the firfl Narrow
a fecond time. Having now fegn the fhip fafe through,
and being quite exhatifted with fatigue, as I had been upon
the deck all the preceding day, and all night, I went into my
cabbin to get fome reft. I lay down, and foon fell afleep;
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