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was said to bear from us at that time. At noon we 

 were in latitude 44 7' S. ; the south point of Banks's 

 Island bearing north, distant five leagues. By seven 

 o'clock at night we had run eight-and-twenty miles, 

 when seeing no land, nor any signs of any, but that 

 which we had left, we bore away S. by W. and con- 

 tinued upon that course till the next day at noon, 

 when we were in latitude 45 16', the south point of 

 Banks's Island bearing N. 6 30' W. distant twenty- 

 eight leagues. The variation by the azimuth this 

 morning was 15 30' E. As no signs of land had yet 

 appeared to the southward, and as I thought that w r e 

 had stood far enough in that direction to weather all 

 the land we had left, judging from the report of the 

 natives in Queen Charlotte's Sound, I hauled to the 

 westward. 



We had a moderate breeze at N. N. W. and N. till 

 eight in the evening, when it became unsettled ; and 

 at ten fixed at south : during the night, it blew with 

 such violence that it brought us under our close 

 reefed topsails. At eight the next morning, having 

 run twenty-eight leagues upon a W. by N. ^ N. course, 

 and judging ourselves to be to the westward of the 

 land of Tovy Poenammoo, we bore away N. W. with 

 a fresh gale at south. At ten, having run eleven 

 miles upon this course, we saw land extending from 

 the S. W. to the N. W. at the distance of about 

 ten leagues, which we hauled up for. At noon, our 

 latitude by observation was 44 38', the south-east 

 point of Banks's Island bore N. 58 30' E. distant 

 thirty leagues, and the main body of the land in sight 

 W. by N. A head sea prevented us from makirig 

 much way to the southward ; at seven in the even- 

 ing the extremes of the land stretched from S. W. by 

 8. to N. by W. ; and at six leagues from the shore 

 we had thirty-two fathom water. At four o'clock the 

 next morning we stood in for the shore W. by S., 

 and during a course of four leagues our depth of 

 water was from thirty-two to thirteen fathom. When 



