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Tuesday 22.
Wednefiday
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About nine o’clock, being got to fome diftance from- the~
land, they met with a very high Tea, which obliged them
to lay to, in order to fecure- their cattle, and other live
ftock, as alfo their ^nGhqrs/icables, .and;harhpur-rigging.
About eleven o’clock they made fail .again, and by- a very
good obfervation, at- noon, were in latitude 210 28'north; at
the fame time could j uft fee the land bearing north, at the
diftance of about eleven leagues, as near as- they could judge,
the w'eather. being rather hazyr In the afternoon the lafh-
ings -of the -booms broke, and they fell tog leeward, which
obliged them to keep the fhip before the wind until they
were replaced and fecured, which having, done, they refumed
their courfe. In the. evening, obferving it to lighten very
ftrongly from the fouthward, they clofe reefed- their top-
fails, expecting it to blow from that quarter. .
Next'day the weather continued moderate but cloudy
and they had a great fea from the eaftward, which made the
fhip labour, fo as to oblige - them to pump every two hours.
The boatfwain and carpenter were both taken ill in the
night with a cold and a flight fever. In the afternoon a fail
was.feento the S. E. which they took t.r be a Portuguese
veffel bound, to M a c a o . The- wind- veered round to the
fouthward this d a y ; no obfervation o f latitude.
The wind fputherly, with cloudy weather and fome light
fqualls - and rain-. T h e y noticed this forenoon feveral rip-
plings in the. waiter, as if in a tide or current; the fea was
fomewhat
fomewhat fallen, and thefliip-rnade’le%w4t,er. No obferVa-
tiofrbf latitude this dKyy-.tbegfun being^ip their zenith. ,
yi"The Weather ^s^eEy-lhually^rainjapd a greaffwell. Thu^ ay
The baatlyyain- ,ajirk carpenter -were -mUch'‘ fel2dver£d^vi& as ;
t-o be,„ abfei tango. about th&i? duty^p^fgej^ii|el the ports
,and preparing the fhip fpr*bad*; weather. By«, an indifferent
obfqryatitjif at;, hoop, 'they,- found .tb^etnfelvesjihi, latitude^
:'ihh.%^:lfbrthy,-,
c The.weat'her- corit-inued'ixefy' dar& .and cfoiftdyhwith^tisun- Friday 25s,
*de-r, lfghthiqg,:hnd:har,d fainjffpthathhe fhip wifefin a matr-
*n,err 4 p%^ort,ra.nd.nvery One Wet. aB|dmncpmforta-bl^hAbont
dn th€ afterftoort* theydaw^h^-a^sea^nne o f
landfrohigthe decb-, l^eiqg the Bn.E-4lri^d^J|eaTing-frOm
,6. EdtpiE'.'N.Eh; At ftjQo’ekK^ the pOrthermoft Jfland h o je
N.:E. by E. ‘ At night, the weather being^Ut,,in-different^nd
hazy, fo that they^could -not k eep fight o f tbh.4^P4 >’ they
tfhqrjtened“-fen and layholtrfliiMbhfrapraiPg- .
At day-break they • again, faw the land to leeward o f Satitfi$ay2$,
them, . tp n g „the* fame theyhad-Teen h]|e.wpight befqrey
from .this, circumftance they cqpeludetf there-t^a^,,^ Qur-
rent yind< as Tdon a& iKeiigli-tr opened a little' rhofe .Upon
them, they made fail and bore away before the wind,, to.gp
-round the northermoft ifland, which they, did- a t.^ p ’ut four
or,five miles diftapce. '-The weather- being hazy ydien -they
.firft faw (the land, they h a d lp t g S ir f irnp?;/|<9 :, v ^ iq fNthp >s
iflands;! The firft appeared.to he-long and toler^bly^eyeAVs
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