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were seen ; this morning another appeared. In the 

 evening, and several times in the night, penguins 

 were heard ; and at day-light, in the morning of the 

 8th, several of these were seen ; and divers of two 

 sorts, seemingly such as are usually met with on the 

 coast of England. This occasioned us to sound ; but 

 we found no ground with a line of 210 fathoms. 

 Our latitude now was 49 53' South, and longitude 

 63 39' east. This was at eight o'clock. By this time 

 the wind had veered round by the N. E. to E., blew 

 a brisk gale, and was attended with hazy weather, 

 which soon after turned to a thick fog ; and at the 

 same time, the wind shifted to N. E. 



I continued to keep the wind on the larboard tack, 

 and to fire a gun every hour till noon ; when I made 

 the signal to tack, and tacked accordingly. But as 

 neither this signal, nor any of the former, was 

 answered by the Adventure, we had but too much 

 reason to think that a separation had taken place ; 

 though we were at a loss to tell how it had been 

 effected. I had directed Captain Furneaux, in case 

 he was separated from me, to cruise three days in 

 the place where he last saw me. I therefore con- 

 tinued making short boards, and firing half-hour 

 guns, till the 9th in the afternoon, w r hen the weather 

 having cleared up, we could see several leagues round 

 us, and found that the Adventure was not within the 

 limits of our horizon. At this time, we were about 

 two or three leagues to the eastward of the situation 

 we were in when we last saw her, and were standing 

 to the westward with a very strong gale at N. N. W., 

 accompanied with a great sea from the same direction. 

 This, together with an increase of wind, obliged us 

 to lie to, till eight o'clock the next morning ; during 

 which time we saw nothing of the Adventure, not- 

 withstanding the weather was pretty clear, and we 

 had kept firing guns, and burning false fires, all 

 night. I therefore gave over looking for her, made 



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