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This project succeeded; but not without damaging 

 the cable in the wake of the hawse. At three, we 

 weighed the best bower, and set sail; and, at ei<*ht, 

 having little wind, and the tide making against us, 

 we dropped anchor again in ten fathoms, off the 

 mouth of Rakowina harbour; the ostrog bearing 

 north by east half east, two miles and a half distant; 

 the needle rocks on the east side of the passage south 

 south-east half east, and the high rock, on the west 

 side of the passage, south. 



On the 13th, at four in the morning, we got under 

 weigh with the ebb tide ; and, there being a dead 

 calm, the boats were sent ahead to tow the ships. 

 At ten, the wind springing up from the south-east by 

 south, and the tide having turned, we were again 

 obliged to drop anchor in seven fathoms ; the Three 

 Needle Rocks bearing south half east; and the ostrog 

 north half east, at the distance of one mile from the 

 nearest land. After dinner, I went with Captain 

 Gore on shore, on the east side of the passage, 

 where we saw, in two different places, the remains of 

 extensive villages; and on the side of the hill, an old 

 ruined parapet, with four or five embrasures. It 

 commanded the passage up the mouth of the bay; 

 and, in Beering's time, as he himself mentions, had 

 guns mounted on it. Near this place, were the ruins 

 of some caverns under ground, which we supposed to 

 have been magazines. 



At six in the afternoon we weighed with the ebb 

 tide, and turned to windward ; but at eight, a thick 

 fog arising, we were obliged to bring-to, as our 

 soundings could not afford us a sufficient direction 

 for steering between several sunk rocks, which lie on 

 each side of the passage we had to make. In the 

 morning of the 14th, the fog clearing away, we 

 weighed as soon as the tide began to ebb ; and, hav- 

 ing little wind, sent the boats ahead to tow ; but, 

 at ten o'clock, both the wind and tide set in so strong 

 from the sea, that we were again obliged to drop 



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