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tinent there. He therefore gave orders, on the 26th of February, to Sleer
for the Cape of Good Hope, with a refolutioil of looking, as he proceeded,
for the Iiles of Deniaànd Marfeveén, which are iaiddoWn in Dr. Hailey’s Chart.
Being however, on thé 13th o f March, two degrees north of the parallel
in which thofe iilands are faid to lié, and having feen nothing to encourage him
to perfevere in looking for them, every one began to grow impatient to get into
port; Captain Cook therefore yielded to the general wiih, and on the 22d
they anchored in Table Bay at the Cape.
They how learnt that the Adventufe had called here on her return, near twelve
months before, and a letter which Captain Furneàux left for Captain Cook informed
them of the loft of his boat, and ten of his beft men in Queen
Charlotte’s Sound.
As foon as they arrived, they went to work to Supply all tfoe defeats o f the
Ship. That the rigging, fails, 8cc. Should be Worn out, will hot be wondered
at, when it is known, that during this circumnavigation of the globe, that is,
from their leaving the Cape to their return to it agai'n, they had failed no left
than twenty thou Sand leagues : an extent ©f voyage nearly equal to three times
the éqùatorical circumference of the éarth j and which was never failed by any
Ship in the fame Space of time before. And what is very remarkable, in all
this great run, which had been made in all latitudes between -9° and yi°, they
fprung neither low malt, top maSt, lower or top fail yard, nor fo much as broke
a lower or top matt Shroud; which, together with the great care and abilities
of the officers, muft be owing to the good ptbperties of the Ship.
Having, by the 27th of April, got all the neceflaty repairs Completed, and
taken on board à frèSh fupp'lybf ftores, provisions, ahd water, Captain Cóo'k
took leave of the Governor and principal Officers, who had treated them
during their Stay with the greateft politenefs, and repaired on board. Soon
after, the wind coming fair, they weighed and put to Sea; and, without meeting
with any incident neceifàry to relate here, arrived on the 15th of May
at the Ifland of St* Helena.
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On the 21 ft they failed from thence, and after touching at the ISland of p-272.
Afcenfion, and having Stretched over to the ISland of Fernando de Noronho, p‘ 2?3*
on the Coaft of Brazils, they arrived, on the 14th of July, at the liland of p 2g3"
Fayal, one of the Azores, and on the 30th o f the fame month anchored at Spithead. p> 2g*
As nothing'from their arrival at the Cape of Good Hope to their landing in
England, relates immediately to the bufmefs of their voyage, fo as to render it
a neceflary addition to the foregoing Journal, a few circumftances inferted in the
original work have been here omitted.
Thus ended this memorable voyage, which had taken up three years and eigh- p* t i teen
d2ys, in which timé, and. under all changes of climate, they loft but
four men, and only one o f them by ficknefs; which is to be attributed chiefly
to the articles put on poard, by direction of the Admiralty, for the prefervation
of the health of the crew, (fuch as the wort, &c. before recited) and the p. 291.
prudent regulations introduced by Captain Cook, through which, the duty of
the people was rendered as eafy and convenient as poflible, and their perfons,
hammocks, bedding, and clothes, as well as the Ship, were kept clean and dry.
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