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calm, and not to go nearer the land we anchored in the 

 dog-watch [4 to vS a.m.] with a stream-anchor, and waited 

 for the land-wind. 



15th. — In the morning, a light laud-breeze. We weighed 

 anchor, and did our best to get off the land a little to sea. 

 Course north-west by north. We then had the northerly low 

 point of the day before north-north-east and north-east 

 by north from us. This land consists of high, double moun- 

 tains, not lower than Formoza Island. At noon found latitude 

 41° 40' and longitude 189'" 49'. Course held north-north- 

 east, and sailed eight miles. The point of the previous day 

 lay south-east from us. Two and a half miles from this 

 point stretches north a large reef. Here, above water, on 

 this reef some high, steep cliffs, like steeples or sails. Past 

 this point, moreover, a mile to west, there w^as no bot- 

 tom. From here also we saw the high land stretch north- 

 north-east from us. We set our course due north, with fine, 

 dry weather and slack water. From this aforesaid low point, 

 with the cliffs, to the north-east the land makes a great 

 bight, and stretches first due east and then again due 

 northerly. This aforenamed point lies under the southern 

 latitude of 41° 50'. The wind west. Here it was easy to 

 see that in this country to the water it seemed a barren 

 land. Besides, we saw no men nor any smoke in the least, 

 and we also saw that they could have no boats there, as we 

 could see no signs of them. In the evening, var. 8° north- 

 easterly. 



16th. — Six glasses before the day [2.30 a.m.] we sounded at 

 60 fathoms, good anchor-ground. At that time the northerly 

 point in sight lay north-east by east from us three miles, and 

 the nearest land from us lay south-east a rnile and a half. 

 We drifted in the calm, with good weather and still water. At 

 noon got latitude 40° 58', and longitude 189° 54' ; course held 

 north-north-east, and sailed eleven miles. Drifted through 

 the calm all afternoon. In the evening, at sunset, var. 9° 23' 

 north-easterly. Got the wind south-west, with increasing 

 breeze. We took the bearing of the furthermost point from 

 us we could see, wdiich was east by north from us. It 

 stood out so boldly that we had no doubt it was the extreme 

 point. We called our council, v/ith the second mates, where- 

 upon we resolved to go north-east and east-north-east to the 

 end of the first Avatch [8 to 12 p.m.] , and then, weather and 

 wind not changing, to sail near the wind, as is further to be 

 seen by the resolution of this date. At night, at the sixth glass 

 [11 p.m. (?)] , the weather became calm, so that we remained 

 by the east-north-east course, although in the fifth glass of 

 the dog-watch [second watch, 2.30 a.m.] the point of the 

 previous evening lay south-east of us. From the sharpness 

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