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diitovered, by a flaih of lightning, a large veflel clofe aboard of them.
The fteerfman inftantly put the helm a^-lee, and the ihip anfwering the rudder,
they juft cleared each other. This was the firft ihip they had feen fince they
parted from the Swallow; and it blew fo hard, that not being able to underhand
any thing that was faid, they could not learn to what nation it belonged.
p. 290 Having ftaid a week at Batavia, they fet fail; and after fuffering much from
p. 291. fluxes and putrid fevers, on the 4th of February 1768, anchored in Table Bay,
p. 294.. at the Cape of Good Hope. Here Captain Wallis caufed all his fick to be
carried on fliote; and, being extremely ill himfelf, he was conveyed about
eight miles into the country, where he continued all the time the ihip lay at
this port, and when ihe was ready to fail, returned on board without having
received the leaft benefit.
p. 296. Having failed weft ward 360 degrees from the meridian of London by the
13d! of March 1768, they had loft a day; Captain Wallis therefore called the
latter part of that day March the 14th.
p. 296. On the 3d of March they left the Cape, and touching at the Illand of St.
p 2ggt Helena on the 17th, anchored fafely in the Downs on Friday the 20th of May,
juil 637 days fince they weighed anchor in Plymouth Sound.
Captain C A R T E R E T ’s Voyage in his Majeily’ s Ship
the S W A L L O W.
p. 305. Captain Carteret, who had made the voyage round the world with the
Honourable Commodore Byron, begins his Journal from the time the Dolphin
and Swallow firft failed: but, as a detail of their joint tranfaftions has been
given in the foregoing Abridgment of Captain Wallis’s Narrative, it will be
only needful to take it up from the reparation o f the two ihips off the weft
entrance of the Straits of Magellan. He prefaces his account of the voyage
with complaints of the unfitnefs of the Swallow for fo long an expedition,
ihe
ihe having been thirty years in the fervice, had how only a flight thin iheath-
ing upon her bottom, and was fcantily fupplied with common neceffaries.
His remonftrances, however, on this head, were ineffectual; and he was told
that the veflel and her equipment were very fit for the fervice ihe was to
perform. From this anfwer, he concluded that it was intended he ihould go
no farther than Falkland Iflands, where the Jafon, a fine frigate, which was,
like the Dolphin, iheathed with copper, and amply equipped, would fupply
his place; but on his arrival at the Straits of Magellan, he found he was to
proceed through the whole voyage. While Captain Carteret was in the P\3°9*
Straits, he likewiie reprefented the condition of his ihip by letters to Captain
Wallis, and requefted him'to confider whether it was beft for his Majefty’s
fervice that ihe ihould be difmifled, or continue the voyage. The anfwer he
received from Captain Wallis was, that as the Lords of the Admiralty had
ordered the Swallow on this fervice, he did not think himfelf at liberty to
alter her deftination.
They continued therefore to navigate the Straits together till the 10th of P* ZI0\
April 1767, when the Swallow was become fo foul, that with all the fails ihe
could fet, ihe could not make fo much way as the Dolphin with only her
topfails, and a reef in them. On that day, at the weftern entrance of the
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Straits, and the great South Sea in fight, the Dolphin, juft as ihe was nearly
abreaft of the Swallow, fet her forefail, which foon carried her ahead; and
before nine o’clock in the evening, as ihe ihewed no lights, they loft fight of
her. They had a fine eafterly breeze, of which they made the beft ufe they
could during the night, carrying all their fmall fails, even to the topgallant
ftudding fails, notwithftanding the danger to which it expofed them; but at
day break, the next morning, they could but juft fee the Dolphin’s topfails
above the horizon; they perceived, however, that ihe had ftudding fails fet,
and at nine o’clock they had entirely loft fight of her.
From this time Captain Carteret gave up all hope off feeing the Dolphin again p. 311.
till they ihould arrive in England; no plan of operation having been fettled,
nor any place of rendezvous appointed, as had been done from England to the
Straits of Magellan. Unfortunately, no part of the woollen cloth, linen,
beads;