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contract the thoughtlessness of infants. I am sure, 

 that if our people had been left to their own discre- 

 tion alone, we should have had the whole crew 

 naked, before the voyage had been half finished. It 

 was natural to expect that their experience, during 

 our voyage to the north last year, would have made 

 them sensible of the necessity of paying some 

 attention to these matters ; but if such reflections 

 ever occurred to them, their impression was so tran- 

 sitory, that, upon our return to the tropical climates, 

 their fur jackets, and the rest of their cold country 

 clothes, were kicked about the decks as things of no 

 value ; though it was generally known, in both ships, 

 that we were to make another voyage toward the 

 pole. They w T ere, of course, picked up by the 

 officers ; and, being put into casks, restored about 

 this time to the owners. 



In the afternoon, we observed some of the sheath- 

 ing floating by the ship ; and, on examination, found 

 that twelve or fourteen feet had been washed off 

 from under the larboard-bow, where we supposed the 

 leak to have been, which, ever since our leaving 

 Sandwich Islands, had kept the people almost con- 

 stantly at the pumps, making twelve inches water an 

 hour. This day we saw a number of small crabs, of 

 a pale blue colour ; and had again, in company, a 

 few albatrosses and sheerwaters. The thermometer, 

 in the night-time, Sunk eleven degrees ; and although 

 it still remained as high as 59% yet we suffered much 

 from the cold ; our feelings being, as yet, by no 

 means reconciled to that degree of temperature. 



The wind continued blowing fresh from the north, 

 till the eighth, in the morning, when it became more 

 moderate, with fair weather, and gradually changed 

 its direction to the east, and afterward to the south. 



On the ninth, at noon, our latitude was 32° 16'; 

 our longitude 166° 40'; and the variation 8° 30' E. 

 And on the tenth, having crossed the track of the 



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