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Branco, as we expected. This rock is an excellent land- 

 mark; by our observation it lies !« 33' 13" E. of the west 

 end of the Typa. Shortly after noon we got sight of the 

 Great Lemma, and that night anchored between Lantao and 

 Chichow. 



FROM THE ARZOBISPO ISLANDS TO KAMSCHATKA. 



June 16 th to July Sd. 



At the commencement of this passage it was my endea- 

 vour to get nearly into the meridian of Petropaulski before I 

 shaped a course for that place, in order to escape the incon- 

 venience likely to arise from the prevalence of easterly winds, 

 which we unexpectedly encountered the preceding year. 



Between the parallels of 30o N. and 35° N. we had light 

 and variable winds, as in our first passage ; and in 39° N. took 

 a southerly wind, which continued with a very thick wetting 

 fog, as before, until within a day's sail of Petropaulski, when 

 it veered to the S.W., and soon after came fresh off the land, 

 precisely as it had done the preceding year. In the summer 

 I recommend making the land a little to the southward of 

 Cape Gavarea, as the wind generally blows off shore, and to 

 the eastward of the promontory veers to the northward ; and 

 if a vessel is not well in with the Cape, she will find much dif- 

 ficulty in beating up. Until we were in latitude 34° N. lon- 

 gitude 1530 E., the currents I'an between N.W. and S.W. 

 twelve miles per day ; they then changed to S. five miles per 

 day as far as 40^ N., and off the Kurile Islands ran strong to 

 the S.E. The weather throughout this passage, with the ex- 

 ception of the fog, was very fine. 



FROM SAN FRANCISCO TO SAN BLAS (mEXICO). 



December 6th to 21 st. 



We found no difficulty in getting to the southward, the pre- 

 vailing wind at this season being from the N.W. It is ad- 

 visable, however, to stand about forty or fifty leagues off the 

 coast, to avoid interruptions from variable winds which occur 



