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month from Cape Palliser in New Zealand to Cape 

 Horn, which is an hundred and twenty-one degrees 

 of longitude, and had continual westerly winds from 

 S.W. to N.W., with a great sea following. 



On opening some casks of peas and flour, that 

 had been stowed on the coals, we found them very 

 much damaged, and not eatable ; so thought it most 

 prudent to make for the Cape of Good Hope, but 

 first to stand into the latitude and longitude of Cape 

 Circumcision. After being to the eastward of Cape 

 Horn, we found the winds did not blow so strong 

 from the westward as usual, but came more from the 

 north, which brought on thick foggy weather ; so 

 that for several days together we could not be able to 

 get an observation, or see the least sign of the sun. 



This weather lasted above a month, being then 

 among a great many islands of ice, which kept us 

 constantly on the look-out for fear of running foul of 

 them, and, being a single ship, made us more atten- 

 tive. By this time our people began to complain of 

 colds and pains in their limbs, which obliged me to 

 haul to the northward to the latitude of 54° S., but 

 we °till continued to have the same sort of weather, 

 t 7 ugh we had often er an opportunity of obtaining 

 observations for the latitude. 



After getting into the latitude abovementioned, 

 I steered to the east, in order if possible to find 

 the land laid down by Bouvet. As we advanced 

 to the east, the islands of ice became more numerous 

 and dangerous ; they being much smaller than they 

 used to be ; and the nights began to be dark. 



On the third of March, being then in the latitude 

 of 54° 4/ S., longitude 13° E., which is the latitude of 

 Bouvet's discovery, and half a degree to the eastward 

 of it, and not seeing the least sign of land, either 

 now or since we have been in this parallel, I gave 

 over looking for it, and hauled away to the north- 

 ward. As our last track to the southward was 

 within a few degrees of Bouvet's discovery, in the 



