177^. THE PACIFIC OCEAN. Q33 



CHAP. XIII. 



OBSERVATIONS MADE AT THE SANDWICH ISLANDS, ON THE 



LONGITUDE, VARIATION OF THE COMPASS, AND TIDES. 



PROSECUTION OF THE VOYAGE. REMARKS ON THE MILD- 

 NESS OF THE WEATHER, AS FAR AS THE LATITUDE 4>4 



NORTH. PAUCITY OF SEA BIRDS, IN THE NORTHERN 



HEMISPHERE. SMALL SEA ANIMALS DESCRIBED. AR- 

 RIVAL ON THE COAST OF AMERICA. APPEARANCE OF 



THE COUNTRY. UNFAVOURABLE WINDS, AND BOISTEROUS 



WEATHER. REMARKS ON MARTIN DE AGUILLAR's RIVER, 



AND JUAN DE FUCA's PRETENDED STRAIT. AN INLET 



DISCOVERED, WHERE THE SHIPS ANCHOR. BEHAVIOUR OF 



THE NATIVES. 



After the discovery had joined us, we stood awav 

 to the northward, close hauled, with a gentle gale 

 from the E. ; and nothing occurring in this situation 

 worthy of a place in my narrative, the reader will 

 permit me to insert here the nautical observations 

 which 1 had opportunities of making relative to the 

 islands we had left ; and which we had been fortu- 

 nate enough to add to the geography of this part of 

 the Pacific Ocean. 



The longitude of the Sandwich Islands was deter- 

 mined by seventy-two sets of lunar observations; 

 some of which were made while we were at anchor in 

 the road of Wymoa, others before we arrived and 

 after we left it, and reduced to it by the watch or 

 time-keeper. By the mean result of these observ- 

 ations, the longitude of the road is 200 13' 0" E. 



rr. , ("Greenwich rate, - 202 



Time-keeper yiietea rate> . . g()0 2] Q 



The latitude of the road, by the 



mean of two meridian observ- 5> 21 56 15 N. 

 ations of the sun 



