fpace of an hour. The fea rifing equally quick, we lhipped
many waves, one of which Hove the large cutter, and drove
the fmall one! from her lafliing into the waift; and with
much difficulty we faved her from being wafhed over-board.
This gale lafted twelve hours, after which we had more
moderate weather, intermixed with calms. We frequently
lioifled out the boats to try the currents, and in general
found a fmall drift to the W. S. W. We fhot many birds;
and had, upon the whole, good weather; but as we got near
to the land, it came on thick and dirty for feveral days, till
we made the coaft of New Zealand in 40° 30' S., having made
twenty-four degrees of longitude, from Adventure Bay, after
a paffage of fifteen days.
We had the winds much foutherly in this pafTage, and I
was under fome apprehenfions of not being able to fetch
the Straits, which would have obliged us to fleer away for
George’s Ifland; I would therefore advife any who fail to
this part, to keep to the fouthward; particularly in the fall
of the year, when the S. and S. E. winds prevail.
The land, when we firfl made it, appeared high, and
formed a confufed jumble of hills and mountains. We
fleered along fhore to the northward, but were much retarded
in our courfe by reafon of the fwell from the N. E.
Satufdaj'v 'At noon on the 3d of April» Cape Farewell, which is the
South point of the entrance of the Weft fide of the Straits,
bore E. by N. 4 N. by the compafs, three or four leagues
diftant. - About eight o'clock we entered the Straits, and
fleered N. E. till midnight; then brought to till day-light,
and had foundings from forty-five to fifty-eight fathoms,
Sunday^ fand and broken Ihells. At day-light, made fail and fleered
S. E. by E. h a d light airs ; Mount Egmont N. N. E. eleven
or
or twelve leagues, arid Point Stephens S. E. 4 E. feven
-leagues. At noon, Mount Egmont N. by E. twelve leagues;
StephensTfland S. E. five leagues. In the afternoon we put
the dredge Over-board in fixty-five fathoms; but caught
nothing except a few fmall fcallops, two or three oyfters,
and broken fhells.
Sunday 4.
Standing to the eaftward for Charlotte’s Sound, with a
light breeze at N. W., in the morning on the 5th, Stephens Monday 5-.
Ifland bearing S. W. by W. four leagues, we were taken
aback with a ftrong eafterly gale, which obliged us to haul
our wind to the S. E., and work to windward up under
Point Jackfon. The courfe from Stephens Ifland to Point
Jackfon, is nearly S. E. by the compafs, eleven leagues diftant,
depth of water from forty to thirty-two fathoms, fandy
ground. As we flood off and on, we fired feveral guns, but
faw no ffgns of any inhabitants. In the afternoon, at half
paft two. o’clock, finding the tide fet the fhip to- the weft-
ward, we anchored with the coafting anchor in thirty-nine
fathoms water, muddy ground ; Point Jackfon S. E. 4 E.,
three leagues; the Eaft point of an inlet (about four leagues
to the weftward of Point Jackfon; and which appears to be
a good harbour) S. W. by W. 4 W. At eight P. M. the tide
flackening, we weighed and made fail (having while at
anchor caught feveral fifh with hook and line), and found
the tide to run to the weftward at the rate of two and a
half knots per hour. Standing to the Eaft, we found no
ground at feventy fathoms, off Point Jackfon N. N. W., two
leagues. At eight the next morning, had the found open, Tuefday 6.
but the wind being down ir, obliged us to work up under
the weftern fhore, as the tide fets up ftrong there, when it
tuns down in mid channel. At ten, the tide being done,
was