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that may follow to do. I wished" much to have had an ©ppor*.
tuhity of observing, whether the warm springs,- taken notice óf
fey all who have'visited them; are salt or fresh.« «This my worthy
and esteemed friendCaptain"Schank requested’me to do ; but
I was disappointed fey both wind and current, and. did nofeehuse
to lose time through waiting for a change in tho former. The
current I 'found hurried us on to therSl E. and .the. wind varied
from M. W. to S. W. altering every squall. I had an observation
at noon, when,-the body Of the Island bore S. W. distant
six miles. The latitude I observed was.SS'^d^ S-. longitude fey
myiaccdunt 77° iii'E.Kulh^rfiCiiwicb; variation perjthe suns
amplitude at setting 22“ 30' W. Soon after leaving: the. Island
we-passed a piece of board like, a boat’s thwart with some rope
round it,.
On the 3d, wfe passed rhuch sea weed, and saw-S©me wKales?
Latitude by observation at noon 38° 9' S. longitudefoy account
80° 24' E.
jjp- The following day we saw many whales of the kind called!the,
Right Whale these do not yield: spermaceti. One,o&m§ysrew
had been two voyages in the whale fishery, and'pointed out the.
•different species when they appeared, and by dlje -blow at a
•great distance.
Nothing particular occurred till the :9th, when, whales , of the
spermaceti kind were very numerous round us, and birds of the
pintadoe, pettrèl and albatross species. At noon our. latitude
by observation was 38° .6' S. longitude by account 4*00°; 13' E
The weather in general was very variable from wet to dry, ac-?
companièd with strong winds', which shifted from. S.W. and
§. S. W. to N. W. and N. We had, however, morè^northerly
wind than southerly, and which brought with it in general a
great deal of rain. The northerly winds in this rhefiiisphere
coming from the Line towards the Pole bring with them nearly
the
tiie same weather in gen’eral whenfthey blow strong, as southerly
winds do-on the British e©aM;-
| Wé had several* showers'of hail with theauvind at S.-W, on the
31th;; and-bn the 13th, Iorderedvth&bread-robm'-to b e examined,'
Whenia leak «was disboyêred from’two iron knees,v-and
another from a* but'"end, which I suppose had been -neglfected^to
fee .caulked. - EourbaSgs^of bread, containing^!©,!)- #eight each,
and part “of some others,-were entirely damaged. • This1 was the
Seeoicfetinfe I had beeh^so'tFkked.- -Bread -pût upiri bags is
much better thapjopse^ for when it meqts with an accident in
the feigacNroom/ in -the’ latter way, §i4is‘vety^difficulh to" separat^
thehgood from- the bad. Apprehensive!-of • leaks, I had p n t éè
fjg^bags into' the hold prior to leaving the Cape,- alhof*which
were in: good .order. The leaks we soon stbjfpddl -’’'We -now pe-
gan_to decrease-our,Westerly variation fast;- On -the tl 5th, -by
the; sun’s azifnuth at-setting, we found 42-fW. -variation ; and
ontthe l 6th,"it being- calm,£we got a boat out and tfiëcbif there
was ,any. current,-but none could bekperèëîvêflK1 At noon, by
observation;‘our latitude was 38° longitude; by:accou|n.tf;f
m m m The .weather was now fine ;v*we »saw-several differ
rent sp e c ie s^ whales, with two threshers at* work on one of them.
This fish ip is said kills the whale.
On the 20th, by lunar observation, we-found the longitude!©
be. 125° 14' E. latitude at noon 38°18' Hb* Many - porpoises
aboutmk,' twd of which we k£U4ty affording a fresh meal to -Jh^i
crew. :I* stilfflkept up-|the -Custom of airingfthe bedding^-and
washing‘between’fdecks, which keptemy’ foferï; activer-and
healthy.
By my account on the 23d, we,»Weife^ri-longitude 130° E. latitude/
SSi Sl'i S. As we had now,crossed Captain Vancouver's
Track, which , is the farthest eastward - of adyf laid down in ih i^
parallel of latitude, it behoved ps .to keep a strict, and attentive:
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