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V O Y A G E to the S O U T H S E A S ,
In his Majefty’s Ship The E N D E A V O U R .
X M & s T * ! N the 22a o f July, 1768, I went on board the ihip, E n d e a v o u r ,
then lying in the Galleons Reach, in the river Thames: on the 3d
SWXSJiiS Auguft arrived in the Downs j and then failed for Plymouth Sound,
‘J t i l f i i i l i l l where we anchored on the 14th, and took on board fome more fea-
men, with a few marines. Mr. Banks, Dr. Solander, Mr. Green, with their attendants,
alfo joined us at this port; and our number was then increafed to ninety
fix. Having taken in fome more ftores and guns, and made a few neceffary alterations
in the ihip, on the 26th of Auguft we failed from Plymouth, with the
■wind at N .N . W. but it did not continue long in that quarter, but changed to
S. W. where it held till the 2d of September, foon after which, we difcovered
Cape Ortugal. From this time, till the 4th of O&ober, we had variable winds,
and then we faw Cape Finiftere at about ten leagues diilance.
We continued our courfe, and met with no material occurrence till the 12th}
then we difcovered Puerto Santo,- about nine leagues off ; foon after we faw the
ifland of Madeira.; and, on the 13th, in the morning-, anchored in Fonchiale
¿Bay*
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