„ »774- December. S E C T. V. Voyage from New Zealand to Terra del Fuego, and from thence farther on towards the South Pole. ON the io th o f November we failed from New Zealand. Our ihip was now found to have fprung a leak, but not of any confequence. In the fpace, of fix weeks, we had failed over the whole ocean between New Zealand and the fouthernmoif part of America; and on the 20th o f December anchored to the fouth of Terra del Fuego, where we faw the moft wretched race of men in the world. On the 29th we paifed Cape Horn, and on the: 31ft, or New-year’s eve, we anchored off a little ifland near Staaten- land, in the ftraits of he Maire; here we had an agreeable amufement in hunting an innumerable quantity of fea- lions, feals, and fea-fowls. On the 23d of January, 17 75 , we failed to the fouth- eaft, and on the 14th difcovered the ifland of South Georgia, in lat. 54 deg. 38 min. Here we landed in all ipeed, and though it was now the fummer feafon, we found the whole country covered with an eternal fnow, excepting fome o f its coafts, on which there grew only one Angle fpecies of grafs, and a fort o f Janguiforba. This horrid country, however, 4 afforded afforded us fome freih proviiions, viz. the fleih o f the fea-lion and feal; a kind of food that we had fome time before learnt to put up with. We afterwards found one after another, ieveral fmall iflands and rocks; on one o f which, in confequence of a fog arifing, we very narrowly efcaped being ihipwrecked; an accident which, in the drcumftances we were in, would inevitably have put an end to our voyage and difcbveries, together with our lives. On the 28th o f January, in lat. 60, the ihip could make ho Way on account o f the ice. On the' 31ft we found ourfelves in a fog, and very near a high land, covered every Where with an eternal, fnow; but the approach of winter and other circumftances, occafloned us to give over all farther inveftigation of this place. This fyrtheft point of land that we couid fee, we called the foutherri Thule, as being the moft diftant land feen in this hemifphere. January. O a S E C T .
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