p A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY
BOOK time-pieces we place.it in the. lat. 40° 19' Si and long.
g° 2,7' W.; which may err two or three miles, as the
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June- horizon was very confided. .
Jr 2th. ’Strong breezes from thedST. $ |rW ... We fleered to. the
' Eaft, preferring nearly the parallel of lat.* 41° 30, S.
-although we could not. get an obfervation moré than
once in three, days.7 The. weather became more moderate,
with the wind variable to the .S. W.. after- we got
ipto eaft longitude.
idth.. The wind- again.
dnereafing violence- in Eeeftngjthe nndnftopfail,Hugh
MacDonald Ml otf the yard .apoxt the ïéèek, and. was
inóft' unfortunately, killed 011 the- fp o t.. Aboutthfe
■time we had the Firft appearancepf thé albatrófe;, and
the beautiful bird called the pintado,.-or Capé; pigeon;
. .alfo great numbers of fea-gulls, fteeiw.ateiiSy &cy., 1
-J%- ift. The breeze rwas, variable at Eaft and S. E.,witb foggy
weather. Several feals came about: the ft ip, and we
J7&- paffed fome joek-weed. A veiy, fevero gale from the
N. and N. W. attacked ns; and in the forenoon, to
.avoid the fea, we furled the fprefail, and < brought
the ft ip to the wind under a ftorni ffty&il* it blowing
.tremend o.ufly haul from the 'N-. W» quarter,., and
raming
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paining, violently.?' In thé night we carried away thé
tiller. ‘
Windvperedtoft p fqually, and cold. ,
Light breezes and cloudy . weather induced us to 13th.
setup the topgallant malts and yards; and we let all
ourfmall fails, which Kad "been of very little ule during
this turbulent paffage.
Wind ‘at SiAS. E. increafed to a ftrdng ‘gale*; ftip a«*,
was" underftorm,' daylads ;''fquans, always attended
with raft.
^ rè tfi brêezeè and cloddy weather; lat. 44° 18'S. Aiiflp&J
At I P. Ml weuaw Van Diemen’s land generally 3a.
covered’ with fnów; ft dfore N.‘‘ by E., the Wind at
N. N. E.‘: at‘ no'èn theTéxtremes bore from ISTJi'5a W. to
62°'W.Ï lat. 44° 5,;S ? 5
Th thé^èVening the-land ll. 54° W> tdt .
71° W.; hn'd the wrSd' remaining at North' presented
us feeing driy iBoreoflbfts ’we- had only to keef* our ■
wind to the éaftward. W & M é è r ë d W.'N.'W., intend- ^T; . . . ... j..; . 6th. Ifle, and ftxjilore- fhp
unknown l^ace between it and Cape Howe, if "the
wind permitted.
Strong