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BOOK IV. 



FROM LEAVING NEW ZEALAND TO OUR RETURN TO 

 ENGLAND. 



CHAP. I. 



THE RUN FROM NEW ZEALAND TO TERRA DEL FUEGO, WITH 

 THE RANGE FROM CAPE DESEADA TO CHRISTMAS SOUND, 

 AND DESCRIPTION OF THAT PART OF THE COAST. 



At daybreak on the 10th, with a fine breeze at 

 W. N. W., we weighed and stood out of the Sound ; 

 and, after getting round the Two Brothers, steered 

 for Cape Campbell, which is at the S. W. entrance 

 of the Strait, all sails set, with a fine breeze at north. 

 At four in the afternoon, we passed the Cape, at the 

 distance of four or five leagues, and then steered 

 S. S. E. £ E. with the wind at N. W. a gentle gale, and 

 cloudy weather. 



Next morning, the wind veered round by the west 

 to south, and forced us more to the east than I in- 

 tended. At seven o'clock in the evening, the snowy 

 mountains bore W. by S., and Cape Palliser N. -£ W. 

 distant sixteen or seventeen leagues ; from which 

 Cape I for the third time took my departure. After a 

 few hours' calm, a breeze springing up at north, we 

 steered S. b" E. all sails set, with a view of getting 

 into the latitude of 54° or 55° ; my intention being to 

 cross this vast ocean nearly in these parallels, and so 

 as to pass over those parts which were left unexplored 

 the preceding summer. 



In the morning of the 12th, the wind increased to 

 a fine gale : at noon we observed in latitude 43° 18' 30" 

 S., longitude l?t)° 41' E., an extraordinary fish of the 



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