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>776. portable. The nights are, nevcrthelefs, often clear and 

 *— -V ' ferene. 



Tuefday ij. At nine o^clock. in the morning of the 13th, we arrived 

 before Port Praya, in the ifland of St. Jago, where we faw 

 two Dutch Eaft India fiiips, and a fmall brigantine at an- 

 chor. As the Difcovery was not there, and we had expended 

 but Uttle water in our pafTage from Teneriffe, I did not 

 think proper to go in, but flood to the Southward. Some 

 altitudes of the Sun were now taken, to afcertain the true 

 time. The longitude by the watch, deduced therefrom, was 

 23° 48' Weft ; the little ifland in the bay bore Weft North 

 Weft, diftant near three miles, which will make its longi- 

 tude 23° 51'. The fame watch, on my late voyage, made 

 the longitude to be 23° 30' Weft; and we obferved the lati- 

 '- tude to be 14° 53' 30" North. \ 



Wednef. 14. The day after we left the Cape de Verde Iflands, we loft the 

 North Eaft trade wind ; but did not get that which blows 



Friday 38. froHi the South Eaft till the 30th, when we were in the lati- 

 tude of 2° North, and in the twenty-fifth degree of Weft 

 longitude. 



During this interval *, the wind was moftly in the South 

 Weft quarter. Sometimes it blew frefli, and in fqualls ; but 

 for the moft part a gentle breeze. The calms were few, 

 and of fhort duration. Between the latitude of 12° and of 

 7° North, the weather was generally dark and gloomy, 



* On the i8th, I funk a bucket with a thermometer feventy fathoms below the 

 ^ ■ furface of the fea, where it remained two minutes ; and it took three minutes more to 



haul it up. The mercury in the thermometer was at 66, which before, in the air, 

 ilood at 78, and in tiic furface of the fea at yg. The water wmch came up in the 

 bucket contained, by Mr. Cavendifh's table, ^V, 7 P^rt fait; and that at the furface 

 of the fea ^'y, 4. As this laft was taken up after a fmart fhower of rain, it might be 

 lighter on that account. Captain Cook' s log-hok. 



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