their going in a ftrait line!, y et; they* > went very fait.
During the night we plied; to the weliward. The
Si -B. 1 Pomfc at hdoiB feçre M. and theothec exw
treme rÎT; 2Si°tW«») eight or tenleagues. ;
We flood within two miles of the Chore, and tacked
in 42 fafhoms the extremes b e a r i n g , , 6,1° W, to
S. 62p E. Two .large boats were riding, at anchor ;
they had each one mail, rigged a midfhig’s*'. on which
they made ufè o# a ftjuane foih o# cloth or canvafs:
they were fimilar to a fînall C'Hmèfè junk in fliape,
ftirledos. Outre Fare et k fléché ils avoient encore des fabres kits'
comme ceux du Japon, dont k poignée était ihcruftée d’or; k garde entourée
d*un bord d’argent, et le fourreau ouvragé à ramage;’ Leurs batri
dHers eloîent- brodés en argent; Hs portoiént aux oreilles des? amïè&ür, et‘-
des pendâns de verotteriede Nurembourg. Es avuient avec eux'des peaux
de chiens de men et de caffors, et quelques etofifesr des* ïhdés. Leur bar-
teaux étaient des troncs dkrbres créüfss, eeffins aîtës: A 43 s- 45' dé" latitude
où vît encore terre, mais on n’y defeendit point. 'Cétte cft' fituée' 120®
plus à FEft que k pointe orientale du Jhporf, H*1* cft £' J?“' 4'; Différence
ên latitude’çf°’3 S'. Direction, Nordk EU quart» d*Ejflr, & Sud Oucft quart
«FOtreft.” 3
Spanberg, the Ruffian navigator, landed; he fays’, in a greatiflànd from
439 to 5o? kt., ipeak-s of-the uncommon-Hairihefs of die- natives-, and of
their-wearing rings of-filver in their ears; -In the intensions given- to La
Peroufe, he. is defied- to: çonfult the-various accounts for the land of Jcfo
collected by Phillip Buache in his Confider-ations géographiques et phyli-
ques-1 Page 75»
butfWe^wete hot flehf -M©©gb Id oWbffrW- thdih paru - cW^yf*.
tieufetlyi 0 Jit *daydlglft faW rbOrd • iafndj, •Bearing*’? —->
Nt* 15? m m N1. 50*“ W. a n d a very eonfpicuous Se^tetnbi f .
lieaddand hot & 8; 7-0° P .f apparently uhbehneftftfed
with- e&ch' ©their. Wh'haldiio foundings With' 'all ouf
line.
Within FouP 14th.
oFfive miles ©P thedandywhich bore* from^N. ^ ^ W .
to-'N. 7 # E., and flbm If. 35* W. to If. 75*' W .; the
laud to the ISFotth apparently joined by the lowttefs of
thdlboTesl- EhuriBgdHfe night w&' kept plying under'
fadj d i a v i h g - f l d i a 4B; to S6:vfltthottfai;
M daylight5 theIhntf of Infa boredom* K 7^rW-:t«y'r ,
S: 78q'E., and the wdtem dibrd'$. W. tb Hi 87*
W., Bluff* Powrt%.'3&°' W .: we; were fiehtiy in' the
ceftfrdofthdbiiy, the fhbres being diftant•flvdlOagaefc11
each way. Frorfi the rigging wb cbUlcfjnfl difeerir
t3 ie^o ^l^d ,fi6(hbiii§f®e"E^a^difl1fiei IfOrth.
We fleered to the Weft; and1 at'nbofr a parflt'of fafnd!
m^dedike aii ifland St §0°JW., Bfff# PbfrdhS; 10* If.,
fbibn^fthfgnt leagues. Extreme' of 1ft fu Baft,'*‘and a-
volcanic mounthin S rd ^ ' Wt
. . .. a. v .■ ’• :
Jlfe6- E. M. we w^aflib&dtBe land] lit a^rioefe S. BK jjth. '
W.:j- ahd3a##T.:M. ti^wefe Wbll'ttp with the fotcirntn
1 „In