177Z. the form o f a journal, partly on account of the frequent occurrence o f events pretty nearly refémbling each other,, and partly by reafon that various iflands were vifited feveral times; a more particular account of the voyage therefore, Imuft defer tó fome other opportunity. In the mean while, for the fake o f preferring the order and connexion o f time, it feems requifite, that I ihould here, in its proper place, give fome account, though as concifely.as poflible, of the different regions we explored during thè fucceeding twenty- eight months, till the time of my landing again fafe at the Gape. S E C T S E C T . IT. Voyage from the Cape of Good Hope to New Zealand. ON the a 2d of November, 17 72 , at four o’clock in the afternoon, we failed from the Gape. The very fame day ftormy weather, and the difagreeable kind o f iickneis which ufually attends people at fea, on their fetting out, appeared to a degree fufficient to make many wiih themfel.ves on fhore. Within eighteen days from our leaving the flowery meads o f the Cape, we found ourfelves very near a coniider- able large floating illand of ice. The thermometer flood at a few degrees above the freezing point, while our latitude was only 50 deg. iouth. How difagreeably we pafled the remainder of the fummer in this hemifphere, may be gathered from this, that we made our way through floating iflands of ice, ibmetimes as big as mountains, till we came to lat. 67/. 1 o" ; fo that we are, and probably fhall continue to be, the only mortals that can. boaft of the frozen honour (as I may call it), of having pafled the ant- ardtic polar circle. A hundred and twenty-two days, or fomething more than feventeen weeks, were elapfed, withr out our having been able to fee land; but not without ; Our having gone through divers perils, not to mention the hardihips irrz- November.
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