iJkreL 0n (*le nort^ ^h°re> but he found no anchorage in it. On the
aoth, at fix o’clock in the morning, a hard fquall coming
on, the fhip drove, and brought the anchor off the bank into
forty fathom, but by heaving up t ie bower, and carrying
out the kedge anchor, we got the fhip on the bank again.
Thorfdayzi. At eight, the day following, though the wind was from
W. N.W. to S. W. we weighed, and once more flood out of
the bay ■, the current flill fet very flrongly to. the eaflward,.
but at noon, we found that we had gained about a mile and
a half in a contrary diredtion. The wind now became variable,
from S. W. to N. W. and at five in the afternoon, the
fhip had gained about four miles to the. weftward; but not
being able to find an anchoring-place, and the wind dying
away, we drove again very fall to the eaflward with the cur-,
rent. At fix, however, we anchored in forty fathom, with
very good ground, in a bay about two miles to the weftward
of that from which we failed in the morning. A fwell rolled
in here all night, fo that our fituation was by no means de-
firable, and therefore, although the wind was flill at
W. S. W. we weighed and made fail about eight o’clock the
Friday id. nextday: we had likewife inceffant rain, fo that the peoplewere
continually wet, which was a great aggravation of their fatigue
; yet they were flill cheerful, and, what was yet lefs
to be expedled, flill healthy. This day, to our great joy, we
found the current fetting to the weftward, and we gained
ground very fall. At fix in the evening, we anchored in the
bay on the eaft fide of Cape Monday, where the Tamar lay
in eighteen fathom, the pitch o f the Cape bearing W. byN.
diftant half a mile. We found this place very fafe, the
ground being excellent,, and there being room enough for
two or three fhips of the line to moor.
C H A P .
C H A P . V I I .
The Pajfage from Cape Monday, in the Streight of Magellan,
into the South Seas; with fome general Remarks
on the Navigation of that Streight.
A T eight the next morning we weighed, and foon after ,765.
we made fail opened the South Sea, from which fuch . Marcfa* .
a fwell rolled in upon us as I have feldom feen. At four Sat“rda)' *}■
o’clock in the afternoon, we anchored in a very good bay,
with a deep found at the bottom, by which it may be
known, about a league to the eaflward of Cape Upright, in
fourteen fathom. The extream point of the bay bore from
N. W. to N. E. by E. and Cape Upright W. N. W. about a
cable’s length to the eaflward o f a low ifland which makes
the bay.
At three o’clock in the morning o f the 24th, I fent a boat, Sunday 24-
with an officer from each fhip, to look for anchoring-places
to the weftward; but at four in the afternoon they returned
without having been able to get round Cape Upright.
The next morning I fent the boats again to the weftward, Monday 2J,
and about fix in the evening they returned, having been
about four leagues,-and found two anchoring-places, but
neither o f them were very good. We made fail, however,
about eight in the forenoon of the next day, and at three, Tuefday 26.
Cape Upright bore E. S. E. diftant about three leagues, a remarkable
cape on the north fhore at the fame time bearing
N. E. diftant four or five miles. This cape, which is very
lofty and ileep, lies N. N. W. by compafs from Cape Upright,
L 2 at