1.7 a*,
March.
Monday" ID.
fold firaijdfogs at fi#tf rfeiar fethjwm depth, ip latitocfe
33040' S, and longitude 490 m W.' This day we tried with
two hundred and forty fathoms o f fine.*, but did not find
bottom; -at the fame time, obferving a riplitig in the water»
we tried the current by mooring a keg: with one hundred
fathoms of line» by which it Appeared fo run to the flSf N W,
at the ^ate p f’ a. mile and a -half per hour. By the pooh
obfervatiorv howeyer, we* were eighteen miles to the
fouthward of our reckoning. In the afternoon we few a
turtle floating, and, not having much winds hoifted a-boat
out, and;fent after it; but it was found to.be in a. .putrid
(bate, with a number of crabs feeding upon it;
The change o f temperature began now to bp fenfibly
felt, there being a variation in the thermometer, fince
yefterday, o f -eight degrees. That the people might snot
iuffer by their own negligence,' I gave osdersfor their light
tropical clothing to be put by* and made tbenadrefs in a
manner .more fuited to a cold climate. I had „provided for
this before f left England, by giving 4 ire<kions for fuch
clothes to be pnrchafed as.iwere neceffary.
Monday 10th. In the forenoon weftruck foundings at
eighty-three fathoms depth ; our latitude 40° S" S, and lon-
gitude 55° 40* ^VY This -I conclude to have been near the
edge ,of :the bank; ftk, th e wind befog afcS.&W, ^ f fo o d ,
toward» the S E>; and, after running fourteen miles in that
direftaon, we could hnd no bottom with-one hundred and
ifaty fathoms of line. In the night we hood towards the
W S W, with a foutherly wind, and -got again into foundings.
T*he next day we faw a great number o f wfaafos of
an immenfc fize, that had two fpout-holes on the back of
the head;— Uppn a complaint made to me by fhe maker,
-I found ithecekary to-punifh Matthew Quintal, one of the
1 feamen,
feamen,-with w o <kwm Whess ff>r inftlem* and mntinpm ^
I b eW e m Befcwthfe, m d m « .h » iw f » n to p » m a v_^~>
•any peyfon, on board. . . . .
On the anight a.-porisifc.by taking it with
the grains. Every one «at heartily of k i aid if was fo well
liked, that no: part was wa#e’d. jf § fp ]
On the 14th, in the, aft^op^n, ,we fAw- a- .fend'-bird like * 7 ‘4*
a lark, and paffed part ) 1 a dead :whale that had been left
toy fome whalers after they had taken, the .blubber oft.
■ Saw, like,wife, two flrangé fail, The next day,, at noon, our
latitude was‘43° g p j and l i^ im d e ^ f 4a' W. Had foundings
at feventy-five fathams,;,tfe bottom a fine greemlh
liand. 'Siaw two hawks. T n
On the x6th anóther ftiip was feen to the.W N W, ft^nd- Sumty 16.
|ng tothe northward. Latitude, at .noon, .43° 34 Webon**
‘tinned mriningto the foutfiwafd*keeping in founding^
the 19th,'at noon, by my account, we were within M W j j
twenty leagues pf Port Befire $ but the windhlowfog frefh
from the N W. with thick foggy weather, I did not attempt
to make the fend. We paffed a g o o d ’deal of rock-weed,
and fifty many whales, andalbatroffes and other feadntds, W |
■ ©n the 20th, at noon, our latitude was S°° 24’ JF* ™ ay *°*
longitude 6 / 50' W. In the afternoon» the wirid^Whieh
had Tor feme time paft been northerly,' fuddenly fhxfted to
- theWS W, and blew hard; yfe>toèr&t‘* r& e » m i'. aod'
e h th b a 3d, artwom’docfc in th» mornmg^fee;dafoc^ed
B è f-coaft of Terra del Fuego beaiing/S’ E. At rune un the
'forenoon we were off Cape'St. Diego, the eaftern part of
Terra del Fuego. Obfervedthe variation here to be a r 23 E.
The wind' being ünfavónf'aMe, I thought it n te e ad-
vifeable to, go round to thé eaftward of Staten| Land, than
to aftempt palling through Straits ie «Make. Tb« tw*b
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