1s©o& in with it dhi;ing..our run. . We faw no birds this'day,
I— —’ or any. indicatkm.oflandWjfii
Auguft
^th. • In the.forenoon a turtle Was'feen, and rpanytropic
* birdscontinned the whole day about the fhipi-
At 2oh* 45m. I made the long. mean of 3 fets © 1 ^ it'
weft of i , ' ' ' ' ^ *" ~1 j
jj Mr. Chapman mean bf 5 fets ' . ; v .1 ' 1 3$" E*
Mr. Crofley mean of 4 do. S 5
N° 1. fame timely ,-iiV •'»
J4th. As we had confamed the-frefti ptovifions procures^
at Owyhee, our people were ferved with .fait, medt,
and a proportion of four-krout and portable fpug.
boiled with peafe. OiLopening. the calk %e|foiind
our muftard-feed entirely' fpoilt, the-air having;, got
into it.
17&. Several fharks about the fliip. We hoifled a
boat out to try if there was any current; but could
find none..
2ad, At 2 P. M. we fleered more to- the North,' paffing;
about 30 leagues to the -N. of. Captain Clerked track
in this fituation. A bird like a plover, with flying fifl>
and tropic birds, were feen in the forenoon.
Being;
- Being in the parallel of latitude of an ifland called CHAP.
Rica dé Plafl, the Eaft 2° of its fu'i)pofe^>:_ '- ^ ^
fxtuatîdn, Wew' fleered ' W. b y 'S .‘'to-fall in with it. 17 Auguft
Thev VêMM^dvas' Cooler than, wd Had'experienced *ÿth’ <
for fonte time, though wcBidv never found the heat
oppreffive, 'i¥ thé frfloMihlèfs of the fea enabled us |
to sparry ojA ports up both-'day^aftdiiigîit. f We "ought -
to diavë feéft thté ifland^aV ifoon had it &e'eü 'rightly
placed in Captai it ‘ Cook’s chart, nbtwithftanding
'we had'l&et^fct 16'’to the SOuth o f our eftlmatkm
by u current. 11
'As we had run 7°" of the fituation in 39th.
which ‘ïtieaü de Plata is placed, without observing tlïé 1 *’
leaftr'indication of dhë ‘viiliiity of land, we altered,
at 7 P. M., our oourftfto the WejftY A TcOrtont’féerned
^Ib'hhvè^fei'til^rongTy to the' N 'É thefe-24rhoiifsV
On an exatninatidn of the fiore'iootdl; we found September
fèvéfal flops and fonîë of off new.fails datfiag’ed.' ' ^The
conftantheht had o’ccdfioried à daihpne'6 iri ‘every part
of the fhip, add the timidity of the air incrCafed i t
After burning'lfires in" the fore1 cockpit, wè gbf rid of
the foul air by the extractor. Thethermotiietéï:gène-
j-ally in ' thd cjbckpit flood at 8d° and^37 A current ^
this day to the'N. W.