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fome people upon the coaftj and probably we were not ^'n^ft 

 miftaken, as fome elevations, like ftages, and others like u..- v—-^ 

 huts, were feen at the fame place. We faw the fame things 

 on the continent within Sledge liland, and on fome other 

 parts of the Coaft. 



It was calm till eight o'clock in the morning, when a 

 faint breeze at North fpringing up, we weighed. But we 

 had fcarcely got our fails fet, when it began to blow and 

 rain very hard, with mifty weather. The wind and cur- 

 rent, being in contrary dircdlions, raifed fuch a fea, that it 

 frequently broke into the fliip. We had a few minutes 

 funlhine at noon; and from the obfervation then obtained, 

 we fixed the above-mentioned latitude. 



Having plied to windward till two in the afternoon, with 

 little efFc(5l, I bore up for the ifland we had feen to the Weft- 

 ward, propofing to come to an anchor under it till the gale 

 fliould ceafe. But on getting to this land, wc found it 

 compofed of two fmall iflands, each not above three or four 

 leagues in circuit ; and confcquently they could afford us 

 little fhelter. Inllead of anchoring, therefore, we con- 

 tinued to flretch to the Weftward ; and, at eight o'clock, 

 land was feen in that diredtion, extending from North North 

 Weft, to Weft by South, the neareft part fix leagues diftanr. 

 I flood on till ten, and then made a board to the Eaftward, 

 in order to fpend the night. 



At day-break in the morning of the loth, we rcfumed Monday 10. 

 our courfe to the Weft for the land we had feen the pre- 

 ceding evening. At eleven minutes after feven, when the 

 longitude, by the time-keeper, was i8</ ^'4', it extended 

 from South, 7^° Weft, to North, 41° Eaft. Between the South 

 Weft extreme, and a point which bore Weft, two leagues dif- 



2 tant. 



