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CHAP. XI. 



SEQUEL OF THE PASSAGE FROM NEW CALEDONIA TO NEW 

 ZEALAND, WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE DISCOVERY OF 

 NORFOLK ISLAND ; AND THE INCIDENTS THAT HAPPENED 

 WHILE THE SHIP LAY IN QUEEN CHARLOTTE'S SOUND. 



1 he wind continuing at S. W., W. S. W. and W. 

 blowing a fresh gale, and now and then squalls, 

 with showers of rain, we steered to S. S. E., without 

 meeting with any remarkable occurrence till near 

 noon on the 6th, when it fell calm. At this time we 

 were in the latitude of 27° 50' S., longitude 171° 43' 

 E. The calm continued till noon the next day, during 

 which time we observed the variation to be 10° 33£' 

 £. I now ordered the carpenters to work to caulk 

 the decks. As we had neither pitch, tar, nor rosin, 

 left to pay the seams, this was done with varnish of 

 pine, and afterwards covered with coral sand, which 

 made a cement far exceeding my expectation. In 

 the afternoon, we had a boat in the water, and shot 

 two albatrosses, which were geese to us. We had 

 seen one of this kind of birds the day before, which 

 was the first we observed since we had been within 

 the tropic. On the 7th, at one P.M., a breeze 

 sprung up at south ; soon after it veered to, and fixed 

 at S. E. by S., and blew a gentle gale, attended with 

 pleasant weather. 



We stretched to W. S. W., and next day at noon 

 were in the latitude of 28° 25', longitude 170° °2& E. 

 In the evening, Mr. Cooper having struck a porpoise 

 with a harpoon, it was necessary to bring to, and 

 have two boats out, before we could kill it, and get 

 it on board. It was six feet long ; a female of that 

 kind, which naturalists call dolphin of the antients, 

 and which diners from the other kind of porpoise in 

 the head and jaw, having them long and pointed. 



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