p. M. my attention: was excited by a mere than ordinary motion
of the vessfel 1' -On my reachingthefdeCk* I found ho-nku-ewind
thari’wé had all day, but the-Sea was *unning/vé# hollow, and
breaking at times. On asking the mate, who'had the wsitch;
hbkdong it •was' since this sea had got up ? He answeréfl^bout
ten minutes,Svhen it rose and broke about half a cableA^g-tb
from the veSsel on. the starboard^boV: tó’apffearéd to ^ b * #
much like a break, that I believed the bottom could /be ? at nó
gteat-dëpth. • Both of us1 were%&muc‘K surprised,- that, without
speaking?® word, I wfent and took the 4 ^ ^ ® H e a l t h e ^ a
sel to, and put thejdeèp-sèa lead-^over,1 but had no soundings
wiÖ^èife&rasdted,and twenty fathoms In è%öut:£rifeêètëthèAsea
break twice as we passed it, odkj'sea following the other,- b u t as
WeWefegoing six knots, and the .seatvery ‘h ^ ïp Iicoul^only
observe it rise while thé vessel was rö’unding'tb; higher .©n that
sfdtthaïMhé place we were on7 From the different fonü-of tié
sèa,. together with the. manner in which it broke, I think there
friu’st be some ground at no great depth in this, spot; ifordt did
nót'gikduaiïy rise into a heavy long swell, and’break atctoq^as
it hhd done all day, but was lifted suddenly* up perpendicular;
throwing itself forward, and doubling over as ifffdbintu ah im-4
mense column of water, breaking in a very heavy surge:, *hère
is little doubt, if we had been in if, that itwbuld ha.^?.;pvjrni
whelmed us as it f e l l s o that more owing-to chance than good
management we escaped. Ï The sea we had been going through
all day, when in the hollow o f it, was much -higher than our
mast head, so thatwe had no great scope of view; but-no mcom
venièhcy was felt, as i t Was long, regular,'and heavy ^admittmg
the vessel to remain on the top of it some time before ït roUed.
from under her: but these breakers were of .a very different
nature, I observed before, that it was the sudden,motion of the
vessel which brought me on deck > but as soon as she was hove
to,
to, we found ourselves in the same state we had been in-all day.
After layffig tOtabout anhohriwedjrbrCeup,: In the Chart pre-
fixedjitoithe -Magtflhdia Directory, some breakers-,seen by Cap-
taam'lSmith >are;laid|dl>wn'- thO' ,'Same'-*Milhtf4fwe were in at
nifdn'this d ay ; but judging and havii%
If.^0^r-fuld^eMfrbm the W. with at strong- W: SrWkgaleip
^bedrihg S.lEiilMHSvViih' the - additions; offJ sometimes, being
obljged/to throw th«^%s©f, farther off tqsrthe E. fo avoid the
b r e a k ? - f o p icffftheisea, at tbne&*.i did net apprehend .ffdlfeg
in with, them, as .laid dowp bybim. itanfSli W. '^Whether these
b e the" satonhor not,boKwhelfaerifher,&'iS' any -gr@und|^(though I
have,mu doubbthefei^p'y.eit it wiM^e -somKsat^factibnbo^seas
i^ien^t® know, thatthey-?may guard against them. Tke'latitjM^}.
^n'©aAy)®brr&sponds',r*that I hav^yCTj pcason,t^f#ieye/them
the same. - On my arrival at th%?OapeJof Good Hopep,I^fei^ed
th<#E$t -opportunity Jo transmit an aecounffdf them to, Europe,
4ith my Opinion. I? befere.remarked thef latitude.and lamgife#e
at ;np on,; from which, until we fell in'Vit-ht^^e breakers? we had
-iknuthirty-two-mile^S. E. halfkS& b ^ om p a s s,! On the lbtb,
thhkariatiomwas,' observed teJbfeiii'bSO': W. ap4,on^he|>20thr
14° W.' I allowed th e variation to be about ,12?°-{■15* Jffy
wbg&aw' those? breakers.
On*thenl9th, the wind was flu tte rin g # round the .compass
without; any steadirieps&feij
The following day we had- it from E. ,E. A t noon,
by observation, our lht: was / ’.Betrels^albatrossesl and
pintadoes, were numerous.’ The weather was very, cold; ther
mefeiaiy Tell to ,§4?. ,
: On: the 21s t , having* got.hearly* -into..the latitude off the Cape,
we bent .our cables, but the wind# which ■ b # # u n g ^ so, long to
riie S. seemed, determined.to oppose :usj the- more unlucky ;aswc
had.gpt.enou#.!oif.southing, and mow wanted easting. Htopus'
' tinued