oaober 110011 Gape Campbell bore W. by N., diftant feven or eight
v— „--- 1 leagues. At three in the afternoon the gale began to abate,
Saturday go. , and to veer more to the North, fo that we retched in with the
land, under the Snowy mountains, about four or five leagues
to windward of the Lookers-on, where there was the appearance
of a large bay. I now regretted the lofs of the Adventure;,
for had fhe been with me, I Ihould have given up
all thoughts of going to Queen Charlotte’s Sound to wood
and water, and have fought for a place to get thefe articles
farther South, as the wind was now favourable for ranging
along the coaft. But our reparation made it neceffary for me
to repair to the Sound, that being the place of rendezvous.
As we approached the land we faw fmoke in feveral places
along the fhore; a fure fign that the coaft was inhabited.
that is,, at the diftance of three miles from the fhore, forty-
feven fathoms ; and twenty-five fathoms at the diftance of
one mile, where we tacked, and flood to the eaftward, under
the two courfes and clofe reefed top-fails; but the latter we
could not carry long, before we were obliged to hand them.
We continued to ftand to the eaftward all night, in hopes of
Sunday 3r. meeting with the Adventure in the morning.
Seeing nothing of her then, we wore and brought to,, under
the fore-fail and mizzen-ftay-fail, the wind having in-
creafed to a perfedt ftorm ; but we had not been long in this
fituation before it abated, fo as tp permit us to carry the two
courfes, under which we flood to the Weft; and at noon the
Snowy Mountains bore W. N. W., diftant twelve or fourteen
leagues. At fix o’clock in the evening the wind quite ceafed ;
but this proved only a momentary repofe; for, prefently
after, it began to blow with redoubled fury, and obliged us
to
to lie to under the mizzen ftay-fail; in which fituation we ‘773-
continued till midnight,-when the ftorm leffened ; and two >—
hours after it fell calm.
On the ift of November, at four o’clock in the morning, November,
the calm was fueceeded by a breeze from the South. This Mo”day I-:
foon after increafed to a frefh gale, attended with hazy,
rainy weather, which gave us hopes that the N. W. winds
were done; for it mult be obferved, that they were attended
with clear and fair weather. We were not wanting in taking
immediate advantage of this favourable wind, by fettingall
°ur fails, and fleering for Cape Campbell, which at noon
bore North, diftant three or four leagues. At two o’clock,
we palled the Cape, and entered the Strait with a briik gale
a-ftern, and fo likely to continue that we thought of nothing
lefs than reaching our port the next morning. Once more
we were to be deceived; at fix o’clock, being off Cloudy Bay,
our favourable wind was fueceeded by one from the North,
which foon after veered to N. W„ and increafed to a frefh
gale. We fpent the night plying; our tacks proved difad-
vantageous; and we loft more on the ebb than we gained
on the flood. Next morning, we ftretched over for the fhore Tuefd.v 2o
of Eaheinomauwe. At fun-rife the horizon being extraordinarily
clear to leeward, we looked well out for the Adventure
; but as we faw nothing of her, judged flie had got into
the Sound. As we approached the above-mentioned fhore,
we difqoyered on the Eaft fide of Cape Teerawhitte, a new"
inlet I had never obferved before. Being tired with beating
againft the N. W. winds, I refolved to put into this place," if I
found it practicable, or to anchor in the bay which lies before
it. The flood being in our favour, after making a
flretch off, we fetched under the Cape, and ftretched into
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