tween eleven and twelve o’clock, we crolled the Antartic-
Circle in the longitude of 390 35' Eaft 5 for at noon we were
by ohfervation in the latitude of 66° 36' 30" South. The
weather was now become tolerably clear, fo that we could
fee feveral leagues round us; and yet we had only feen one
ifland of ice fince the morning.. But about four P. M. as we
we were fleering to the South, we obferved the whole fea in a
manner covered with ice, from the direction of S. E., round;
by the South to Weft.
In this fpace, thirty-eight ice iflands, great and fmalli-
were feen, befides loofe ice in abundance, fo that we were
obliged to luff for one piece, and bear up for another, and,,
as we continued to advance to the South, it increafed in.
fuch a manner, that at 4 paft fix o’clock, being then in the
latitude of 67° Js' South, we could proceed no.farther; the
ice being entirely clofed to the South, in the whole extent
from Eaft to W. S. W., with'out the leaft appearance of any
opening. This immenfe field was compofed Of different
kinds of ice; fuch as high hills; loofe or broken pieces,
packed clofe together, and what, I think, Greenlandmen
call field-ice. A float of this kind of ice lay to the S. E. of us,,
of fuch extent that I could fee no end to it, from the mall
head. It was fixteen or eighteen feet high at leaft;. and appeared
of a pretty equal height and furface. Here we faw
many whales playing about the ice; and, for two days before,,
had feen feveral flocks of the brown and white pintadoes,,
which we named Antarctic peterels,. becaufe they feèm to be
natives of that region. They are, undoubtedly, of the peterel.
tribe; are, in every refpedt, Hr aped like the pintadoes, differing
only from them in colour. The head and fore-part of the-
bodyofthefe, are brown; and the hind-part of the body, tail,
and ends of the wings, are white. The white peterel alfo
appeared
appeared in greater numbers than before; fome few dark
e-rev albatrofles; and our conftant companion the blue peterel. .-----' o J - . Sunday 17.
But the common pintadoes had quite difappeayed, as well as
many other forts, which are common in lower latitudes.
C H A P . III.
Sequel o f the Search fo r a Southern Continent, between the
Meridian o f the Cape o f Good Hope and New Zealand;
with an Account o f the Separation o f .the two Ships, and
the A rriva l o f the Refolution in Dufky Bay.
A FTER meeting with this ice, I did not think it was at
all prudent to perfevere in getting farther to the South;
efpecially as the fummer was already half fpent, and it would
have taken up fome time to have got round the ice, even
fuppofing it to have been practicable; which, however, is
doubtful. 8 therefore came to a refolution to proceed di-
redlly in fearch of the land lately difcpvered by the French.
And, as the winds ftill continued at E. by S., I was obliged
to return to the North, over fome part of the fea I had already
made myfelf acquainted with, and, for that reafon,
wiftied to have avoided. But this was not to be done; as
our courfe made good, was little better than North. In the
night the wind increafed to a ftrong gale, attended with fleet
and fnow, and obliged us to double-reef our top-fails. About TueHay :;£
noon the next day, the gale abated; fo that we could bear all
our reefs out; but the wind ftill remained in its old quarter.
In the evening, being in the latitude of 64° 12 South,
longitude 40° 15' Eaft, a bird called by us in my former
G 2 voyage,