-/*?% longitude r88° 27' W.; the Three Kings bore N. 41 E. diftant
>-—- fifty-two miles. At feven o’clock in the evening, the wind
being Jat .S.W. and S. W. by -W. with hard fqualls, we wore
.Friday -,9. and lay on the other tack; and affix the next morning fpread
more fail. Our courfe and diftance fince yefterday was
. E. by M twenty-nine miles. In the afternoon, rye had hard
fqualls at S.W.; and at eight in the evening, wore and flood
■ Saturday jo. to the N.W. till five the next morning; and then wore and
flood to the S. E. At fix, we faw the land bearing N. E. dif-
-tant about fix leagues, which we judged to be Gape Maria
’Van Diemen, and which correfponded with the account that
had been given of it by- the Indians. At midnight we wore
Sunday ZJ. and flood to the S.E. And on the next day at noon, Cape
Maria Van Diemen bore N. E. by N. diftant about five leagues.
At feven in the evening, we tacked and flood to the weft ward,
with a moderate breeze at S. W. by S. and S. W. Mount Camel
then bore N. 83 E. and the northermoft land, or Cape
Maria Van Diemen, N. by W .; we were now diftant from the
neareft land about threeJeagues, where we had fomething
more than forty fathom water; and it muft be remarked, that
Mount Camel, which when feen on the other fide did not feem
to be more than one mile from the fea, feemedto be but little
more when feen from this fide ; which is a demonftration
that the land here cannot be more than two or three miles
broad, or from fea to fea.
januar ^ 0'C^0C^ l^e morning of January the ill, 1770,
Monday i. being New-year’s Day, we tacked and flood to the eaftward,
the Three Kings bearing N, W, by N. At noon, we tacked
again, and flood to the weftward, being in latitude 340 37' S.;
the Three Kings bearing N W. by N. at the diftance of ten
or eleven leagues ; and Cape Maria Van Diemen N. 31 E. diftant
about four leagues and an half; in this fituation we had
fifty-four fathom water.
During
During this part of our navigation two particulars are
v ery remarkable ; in latitude 35° S. and in the midftof fum-
mer, I met with a gale of wind, which for its ftrength and
continuance was fuch as I had fcarcely ever been in before,
and we were three weeks in getting ten leagues to the weft-
ward, and five weeks in getting fifty .leagues, for at this
time it was fo long fince we palled Cape Bret. During the
gale, we were happily at a confiderable diftance from the
land, otherwife it is highly probable that we fhould never
have returned to relate our adventures.
1770.
January.
Monday x*
At five o’clock in the evening, having a frefh breeze to
the weftward, we tacked and flood to the fouthward : at this
.time North Cape bore E. i N. and juft open of a point that
lies three leagues W. by N. from it.
This Cape, as I have obferved before, is the northermoft
extremity o f this country, and the eaftermoft point of a pe-
ninfula, which runs out N.W. and N. W. by N. feventeen or
eighteen leagues, and of which Cape Maria Van Diemen is the
weftermoft point. Cape Maria lies in latitude 34° 30 S. longitude
187° 18' W.; and from this point the land trends
away S.E. by S. and S.E. beyond Mount Camel, and is
every where a barren fhore, confiding of banks of white
fand.
On the 2d, at noon, we were in latitude 330 17'S. and Cape xaefday 2.
Maria bore north, diftant about fixteen leagues, as near as
we could guefs ; for we had no land in fight, and did not
dare to go nearer, as a frelh gale blew right on Ihore, with
a rolling fea. The wind continued at W.S. W. and S.W.
with frequent fqualls ; in the evening we ihortened fail, and
at midnight tacked, and made a trip to the N.W. till two in
the morning, when we wore and flood to the fouthward. At wednef.3.
b r e a k of day, we made fail, and edged away, in order to make
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