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weather. We thought we saw some people upon the 

 coast ; and probably we were not mistaken, as some 

 elevations, like stages, and others, like huts, were 

 seen at the same place. We saw the same things on 

 the continent within Sledge Island, and on some 

 other parts of the coast. 



It was calm till eight o'clock in the morning, when 

 a faint breeze at north springing up, we weighed ; 

 but we had scarcely got our sails set, when it began 

 to blow and rain very hard, with misty weather. The 

 wind and current, being in contrary directions, raised 

 such a sea, that it frequently broke into the ship. 

 We had a few minutes' sunshine at noon ; and from 

 the observation then obtained, we fixed the above- 

 mentioned latitude. 



Having plied to windward till two iii the after- 

 noon, with little effect, I bore up for the island we 

 had seen to the westward, proposing to come to an 

 anchor under it till the gale should cease. But on 

 getting to this land, we found it composed of two 

 small islands, each not above three or four leagues 

 in circuit ; and consequently they could afford us 

 little shelter. Instead of anchoring, therefore, we 

 continued to stretch to the westward ; and at eight 

 o'clock, land was seen in that direction, extending 

 from north north-west, to west by south, the near- 

 est part six leagues distant. I stood on till ten, and 

 then made a board to the eastward, in order to spend 

 the night. 



At day-break in the morning of the 10th, we re- 

 sumed our course to the west for the land we had 

 seen the preceding evening. At eleven minutes after 

 seven, when the longitude, by the time- keeper, was 

 189 24', it extended from south, 7~ west to north, 

 41 east. Between the south-west extreme, and a 

 point which bore west, two leagues distant, the shore 

 forms a large bay, in which we anchored at ten o'clock 

 in the forenoon, about two miles from the north shore, 



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