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increased in such a manner, as obliged us to take in 

 one reef after another ; and, at last, it came on with 

 such fury, as made it necessary to take in all our sails 

 with the utmost expedition, and to lie to under bare 

 poles. The sea rose in proportion with the wind ; so 

 that we had a terrible gale, and a mountainous sea to 

 encounter. Thus, after beating up against a hard 

 gale for two days, and arriving just in sight of our 

 port, we had the mortification to be driven off from 

 the land by a furious storm. Two favourable circum- 

 stances attended it, which gave us some consolation ; 

 it was fair over head, and we were not apprehensive 

 of a lee-shore. 



The storm continued all the day without the 

 least intermission. In the evening we bore down to 

 look for the Adventure, she being out of sight to lee- 

 ward, and after running the distance we supposed her 

 to be off, brought to again without seeing ; it being 

 so very hazy and thick in the horizon, that we could 

 not see a mile round us, occasioned by the spray of 

 the sea being lifted up to a great height by the force 

 of the wind. At midnight the gale abated ; soon 

 after fell little wind ; and at last shifted to S. W., 

 when we wore, set the courses and top-sails close- 

 reefed, and stood in for the land. Soon after the wind 

 freshened and fixed at south ; but as the Adventure 

 was some distance a-stern, we lay by for her till eight 

 o'clock, when we both made all sail, and steered N. 

 by W. W. for the strait. At noon observed in 42 27' 

 south, Cape Palliser, by judgment, bore north, dis- 

 tant seventeen leagues. This favourable wind was not 

 of sufficient duration ; in the afternoon it fell, by little 

 and little, and at length to a calm ; this at ten o'clock 

 was succeeded by a fresh breeze from the north, with 

 which we stretched to the westward. 



At three o'clock next morning we were pretty well 

 in with Cape Campbell on the west side of the Strait, 

 when we tacked, and stretched over for Cape Palliser, 

 under courses and close-reefed top-sails, having the 



