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1778 The Difcovery being; at Ibmc diftance aftern, I brou^lit 



April. JO o 



V — ^ — > to, till flie came up, and then bore away, fleering North 

 Weft; in which direcftion 1 fuppofed the coaft to lie. The 

 wind was at South Eaft, blew very hard, and in fqualls, 

 with thick hazy weather. At half part one in the after- 

 noon, it blew a perfect hurricane; fo that I judged it highly 

 dangerous to run any longer before it, and, therefore, 

 brought the fhips to, with their heads to the Southward, 

 under the forefails and mizen-ftay fails. At this time, the 

 Refolution fprung a leak, which, at firft, alarmed us not a 

 little. It was found to be under the flarboard buttock; 

 where, from the bread-room, we could both hear and fee 

 the water rufl,! in ; and, as we then thought, two feet under 

 water. But in this we were happily raiftaken ; for it was 

 afterward found to be even with the water-line, if not above 

 it, when the fhip was upright. It was no fooner difcovered, 

 than the lifli-room was found to be full of water, and the 

 caflcs in it afloat ; but this was, in a great meafure, owing 

 to the water not finding its way to the pumps through the 

 coals that lay in the bottom of the room. For after the 

 water was baled out, which employed us till midnight, and 

 had found its way directly from the leak to the pumps, it 

 appeared t1iat one pump kept it under, which gave us no 

 fmall fatisfacT:ion. In the evening, the wind veered to the 

 South, and its fury, in fome degree, ceafed. On this, we 

 fet the main-fail, and two topfails clofe-reefed, and llretched 

 to the Wefl-ward. But at eleven o'clock, the gale again in- 

 creafcd, and obliged us to take in the topfails, till five 



TucfJay 28. o'clock the next morning, when the ftorm began to abate ; 

 fo that we could bear to fet them again. 



The weather now began to clear up ; and, being able to fee 

 feveral leagues round us, I ilccred more to the Northward. 



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