henfive that in perfevering in our endeavours to double Cape Horn,
orir-'iraw, unfeaforied company o f landmen# L‘Wkfiaens, arid children-,
might fall' vidtims to the repeated "fto'rms and .colder- weather, which
V^enriight expedt to-meet with in the*attempt: allb, after'^Jkmgs'our
beft, the certainty- ©ft getting- round, in our- cirCumftances, was
doubtful, y**in the -cafe-irf Bligh and others, whofe efforts, after
long Ihngglesj .ptbved3ih vain.; N
Therefore the" captain, after deliberately weighing thefe ancLthe
corirledted circumftahces-, - relinquifhed a- plan,, whiehhto.f.execute
required a- fliip’s crewi o f'h a rd y fadors,, unaccompanied bjr Aend<S:
women arid ^childi^r, and adopted* the refolutibnofigriangitKe eaftern
paflage • that i s / t o 1 pafs a '•few -degrees fouth ofs thfe iGape o f Good
Hope, to fail to the Southward o f the fouth cape o f NewvHolland
arid-New -Zealand, 'keeping in the track o f the wefterly winds'till
near the meridian of Otaheitc, and then to fleer to the northward
for that iflaridi IS
A t noon we obfervcd in laK-39” a ' S.^ long. 50" W . Immediately
afterwards We bore away, fetting ’what fail th e IhipWouIcL bear ;
and this we certainly had good reafon to do, eonfidering that.faefoie
we could reach Otaheite Jby the ftraighteft couirfe,-. w em u ft run-mot
Hsth an fo u rte en thoufand miles; whereas, from our prefent flatiori,
to go by way o f Cape Horn, the diftance did not exceed .fevenfhou-
fand miles ; and I am perfuadcd, that to fome on board the defire
to fail round the world was more than a counterpoife to the difficulties
which might attend our paflage rouftd that cape. But fince
it is proper, that in all fcafcs felf-gratificatiori ought to give place to
the beft-devifed means o f obtaining the principal ends o f our employment,
fo now all were fully fatisfied that the late adopted mea-
fures were for the beft.
The fea running tremendoufly h igh, we were apprehenfive o f
being pooped by it, o r otherwife receiving damage, therefore fhaped
our courfe right before it, fleering N . E . by E . and E . N. E . till it
Dec.]
gradually iiledlftie frifoothe® Iff tlfe\c&ur*fe4of; the,firft'foiir days-,we
•ran’ 'fix^htMlred andi'fentj^mites by/ou^lb^-arid^Weres^ien detained
feV^wMiSfe^'ekfterly
to |jasdqnlatd'Z^he^4|asi©i^^0Grii#fqpc^f,qf ,6 >4 ^ n g ^
WhefO theWsjifdisf ^hichiprefenlf 'themlpl^^b^ye' already beep largely
/>!bjiftory wqtjM
•afeT'd^bi&riBfifl'e entertainment, '^ ^ t ^ ^ f t^ t e p g ^ ^ o n ^ p f ^wirtdsij.^nd
Weathers1 ©ril'y qtireMhe^ patienca’^Jjiyeje&jBe fhall -Jeems • it fufficaentstp
^tJeh ii^ ifty th ^ ijjro g ie fs we-madetfEqpx-fimeit^&j^^||Pur miffionary
htklds 'will .fiErtho chafm.' a j
- December1 ^fh^/Mk^td^oiK^esesEg-ifes ■-.hav^^ i ^ rtq fflo f^b ^ f
interrupted^
detjfelriV'hen^^e'^^ld^riot caflTenabiei.4® jthg [quarter . v, • JK
met - ®tir” dcSrfeierid's^w En§lan#a%tpa©ijF-4 i-ouP
up-’Silh ^aitibnsi m'Cfnfor with fhcirs-to^hc throne- of-graec,Hfor the
'flitcTf-? dflralf mfftfrn dtf kboui 3^. ■
'^6'lla'f" "’Fifefti breezes : ran exghbor nine kn§fc§kai|rhaj&r, figsjngteat
are hisi£mercie!i~b!7 • -
: * ■ ‘8th. A great' head fea’; flfw* fdverak^hak&ipky ing*anaundtj fome*
times* ;tfey^t^protehed very near, S#bfe-Junder; t?h#-ftern, jwhejtewe
ieWldroMerVe'-themodiftinT<fllyi''as)ithey came to the furfacejto^b^eathe,
Hhlfeiytrfg *up fhA WcttenrtOi a vaft - heighpi'yri6h ‘%tEeniep4p,V^' $©i|f*
< W I f Wete'ftrtick With awe nndffcdsninrtyH^'HQWr wonderfulfandma-
sriifoldsarfe ‘thy? worlds’,*\Q7G©d!', Heaven,»«eatjh, -andjfea, declare tby
^dsy^t^Cri^fex^rjrlthing w hich hath>breath.praife;the Lord.”
>ry ThO'dimatfe here;, thoagh,advanei&g4 o;$he midft of furnm^r, ap-
-peareditd^fcs:MdTat^iri-'-'Erig|andsriri**the midft- ©f winter.
, The gale ftillblewftomthe weft with unabatedviolence; anawfulfea
. ru'nning mountainsrhig^j the cloudsharigipg-loW, thick,"andjgloomy;
the Ihip firiiddirigifeefore the wind with furprifing eafe -and fwiftnefs,
\and: Slipping very .'little water# econfidfering thje?greatn^s,*to f the fea.
At tbofeStJimes we trulyibeheld the,-wop4ers of rthe Lord in the great
deep.. The Ihip fometimes feemed hid between two lofty mountains of