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fcad not died away, and left us to the noercy of a ffreat fwell, ^ '7?^- 



■><=>' December. 



which carried us faft toward the land, which was not two > — -v- — j 

 leagues diftant. At length, we got our head off, and fbme 

 light puffs of wind, which came with fliowers of rain, put 

 us out of danger. While we lay, as it were, becalmed^ 

 feveral of the iflanders came off with hogs, fowls, fruit, and 

 roots. Out of one canoe we got a goofe ; which was about 

 the lize of a Mufcovy duck. Its plumage was dark grey*, 

 and the bill and legs black. 



At four in the afternoon, after purchafing every thin^ 

 that the natives had brought off, which was full as much 

 as we had occafton for, we made fail, and ftretched to the 

 North, with the wind at Eaft North Eaft. At midnight, we 

 tacked, and flood to the South Eafl. Upon a fuppofition that 

 the Difeovery would fee us tack, the fignal was omitted -, but 

 fhe did not fee us, as we afterward found, and continued 

 {landing to the North ; for, at day-light next morning, Thurfdayz^* 

 flie was not in fight. At this time, the weather being hazy, 

 we could not fee far; fo that it was pofTibie tlie Difeovery 

 might be following us; and, being part the North Eafl part 

 of the ifland, I was tempted to ftand on, till, by the wind 

 veering to North Eafl, we could not weather the land upon 

 the other tack. Confequently we could not fland to the. 

 North, to join, or look for, the Difeovery. At noon, we 

 were, by obfervation, in the latitude of 1 9" ^s'^ ^^^ ^^ the 

 longitude of 205' 3' ; the South Eaft point of the ifland 

 bore South by Eaft a quarter Eaft, fix leagues diftant ; the 

 other extreme bore North, 60° Weft ; and we were two 

 leagues from the neareft fhore. At fix in the evening, the 

 Southernmoft extreme of the ifland bore South Weft, the 



neaieft fhore feven or eight miles diftant; fo that we had 



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