BOOK
II.
. *797- -
September.
I began alfo to conceive* Captain King was right
in bis conjectures concerning the Dutch (hips having
coafted thp eaftefn fide of Tartary, from 45° North
to 49° North, without knowing it to be fuch. I only
regretted we had not with us JanfenV map of their
difcoveries.. It however appears very evident that
the land called Efo by the Dutch navigator, which I
believe implies Efau, or the land of hairy men, and
which the natives call Infoo, as well the Japanefe we
faw as before explained, is-an ifiand of.very con-
fiderable magnitude, extending from 41° 24' North
to the latitude of 45° or 45°.25' North, and from
140° O' Eaftto 146° 22' Eaft, being ?0 leagues, in the
parallel of 44° 30' North, wide; and which is -not ks
greateft breadth. We faw* nothing of the northern
p a rt; but as we faw no land' between 45° 23? North
and 46° North, will leave an extenfive ftrait between
it and the peninfula of the coaft of Tartary r. oc, lhould
the land before mentioned, in 45° 25' North, prove to.
be an ifland, which I imagine to be the cafe, there
will ftill be a clear channel remaining between it and
the land of Ihloo, as exhibited in. the Japanefe chart,
which accompanies this journal*.
I t appears manifestly the miftake of D.e Vries, in
imagining the land he fell in with, in 45° North, to,
6 be
Jpp the land /of-.-E£b,r.and/ .which,, according, to the CHA.P.
weather, ho might^eaftly ■ fufpe^.;; as in the connection *— —'
of lands we are frequently deceived, and find openings September,
and channels where none were expected. For in-
fiance1 a-J in the ftraits. o f Matzmai, wherp the ifland
O&Infoodso divided from Japan by a paflage pot five
league^, ^i^p^3apdj the, north point of ., Japan is feyen
miles North of Matzmai towh,.-.qndTep iniles North
of «the fouth point of Infoo, which, on entering the
ftraits from the weft ward, makes, it, appear, as if- there
was no paflage between them, the1 points being ftiut
in with each other.-
,,"Tacked apd flood in. the, lanrd againft a moft ^jth.
unpleafant ihead fea. f At 5 h. 30,m., the wind again
comipg fcq ^§|Wpft, wqfjtoo.d.,to,the S.,W.; t^e land
at the .time pxfqnding frpm^Nyfby W .f W< to W.
by S.
Frefli. breezes^, throughout the night, with a eon-
fufed fea, that .drove, us bodily to leeward.. The land
continued the fame direction and diftance; and the
wind and j fea together, prevented, our nearer approach
to- it. :
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