C H A P . VI.
Paffage from Kerguelens to V an D iem en s L a n d .---A r -
r iv a l in Adventure Bay.— Incidents there.— Interviews
with the N a tiv es.— Their Perfons and D refs defcribed.—
Account o f their Behaviour.— Table o f the Longitude,
L a titu d e, and Variation.— M r . Anderfons Obfervutions
tin the natural Produ&ions o f the Country, on the Inhabi
tant sand their Language.
A FTER leaving Kerguelen’s Land, I fleered Eaft by 1776.
North, intending, in obedience to my inftruftions, to Decemb‘ir'.
toufh next at New Zealand; to recruit our water, to take in
wood, and to make hay for the cattle. Their number, by
this time, had been, confiderably diminiihed ; two ybung
bulls, one of the heifers, two rams, and lèverai of the
goaits having of late died, while we were employed in exploring
this defolate coaft. 1
The 31ft, in the morning, being the day after we flood Tuefday3i.
out) to fea, we had feveral obfervations of the fun and moon.
Their refults gave the longitude 72° 33' 36" Eaft, The timekeeper,
in this lituation, gave 72° 38- 15", Thefe obltrva-
tiorjs were the more ufeful, as we had not been able to get
any) for fome time before, and they now ferved to allure us
that no material error, had crept into the time keeper. 1
Qn the ill of lanuarv, being then in the latitude of 48° ym-
L, ! J . 1 o 1 January. 41' Bouth, longitude 76° 50' Eaft, the variation was 3d0 39 Wednei: 1.
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