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we were in the latitude of the Bay of Islands ; and 

 by my reckoning but twenty leagues to the westward 

 of North Cape : from whence it appears, that the 

 northern part of this island is very narrow ; for 

 otherwise we must have seen some part of the west 

 side of it. We stood to the southward till twelve at 

 night, and then tacked and stood to the north- 

 ward. 



At four o'clock in the morning, the wind freshened, 

 and at nine, blew a storm ; so that we were obliged 

 to bring the ship to under her mainsail. Our course 

 made good between noon this day and yesterday was 

 S. S. W. i W., distance eleven miles. The Three 

 Kings bore N. 27 E. distant seventy-seven miles. 

 The gale continued all this day, and till two the 

 next morning, when it fell, and began to veer to the 

 southward and S. W., where it fixed about four, 

 when we made sail and steered east in for the land, 

 under the fore-sail and main-sail ; but the wind then 

 rising, and by eight o'clock being increased to a hur- 

 ricane, with a prodigious sea, we were obliged to take 

 in the main-sail ; we then wore the ship, and brought 

 her to with her head to the north-west. At noon 

 the gale was somewhat abated, but we had still heavy 

 squalls. Our course made good this day, was north, 

 a little easterly, twenty-nine miles ; latitude by ac- 

 count 34°50'S., longitude 188° 2?' W.; the Three 

 Kinss bore N. 41 E. distant fiftv-two miles. At 

 seven o'clock in the evening, the wind being at S. W. 

 and S. W. by W., with hard squalls, we wore and lay on 

 the other tack ; and at six the next morning spread 

 more sail. Our course and distance since yesterday 

 was E. by N. twenty-nine miles. In the afternoon, we 

 had hard squalls at S. W. ; and at eight in the evening, 

 wore and stood to the N. W. till five the next morn- 

 ing y and then wore and stood to the S. E. At six, we 

 saw the land bearing N. E., distant about six leagues, 

 which we judged to be Cape Maria Van Diemen, 

 and which corresponded witb the account that had 



