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the moon and stars, which satisfied us that, when our 

 latitude was 59 44', our longitude was 121 9'. At 

 three o'clock in the afternoon, the calm was suc- 

 ceeded by a breeze at S. E. The sky, at the same 

 time, was suddenly obscured, and seemed to presage 

 an approaching storm, which accordingly happened ; 

 for, in the evening, the wind shifted to south, blew 

 in squalls, attended with sleet and rain, and a prodi- 

 gious high sea. Having nothing to take care of but 

 ourselves, we kept two or three points from the 

 wind, and ran at a good rate to the E. N. E. under 

 our two courses, and close-reefed top-sails. 



The gale continued till the evening of the 10th ; 

 then it abated ; the wind shifted to the westward ; 

 and we had fair weather, and but little wind, during 

 the night, attended with a sharp frost. The next 

 morning, being in the latitude of 57 56', longitude 

 130, the wind shifted to N. E. and blew a fresh 

 gale, with which we stood S. E., having frequent 

 showers of snow and sleet, and a long hollow swell 

 from S. S. E. and S. E. by S. This swell did not go 

 down till two days after the wind which raised it had 

 not only ceased to blow, but had shifted, and blown 

 fresh at opposite points, good part of the time,, 

 Whoever attentively considers this, must conclude, 

 that there can be no land to the south, but what 

 must be at a great distance. 



Notwithstanding so little was to be expected in 

 that quarter, we continued to stand to the south till 

 three o'clock in the morning of the 12th, when we 

 were stopped by a calm ; being then in the latitude 

 of 58 56' south, longitude 131 26' east. After a 

 few hours' calm, a breeze sprung up at west, with 

 w T hich we steered east. The S. S. E. swell having 

 gone down, was succeeded by another from N. W. 

 by W. The weather continued mild all this day, 

 and the mercury rose to 39i. In the evening it fell 

 calm, and continued so till three o'clock in the 

 morning of the 13th, when we got the wind at E. 



