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o tranfitory, that, upon our return to the tropical climates, ^79- 



their fur jackets, and the reft of their cold country clothes, * — -j 



were kicked about the decks as things of no value ; though 

 it was generally known, in both (hips, that we were to 

 make another voyage toward the pole. They were, of courfe, 

 picked up by the officers ; and, being put into cafks, reflored 

 about this time to the owners. 



In the afternoon, we obferved fome of the fheathing float- 

 ing by the fliip ; and, on examination, found that twelve 

 or fourteen feet had been waflied off from under the lar- 

 board-bow, where we fuppofed the leak to have been ; 

 which, ever lince our leaving Sandwich Iilands, had kept 

 the people almoft conftantly at the pumps, making twelve 

 inches water an hour. This day we faw a number of fmall 

 crabs, of a pale blue colour ■, and had again, in company, a 

 few albatroffes and fheerwaters. The thermometer, in the 

 night-time, funk eleven degrees ; and although it dill re- 

 mained as high as 59 , yet we fullered much from the cold; 

 our feelings being, as yet, by no means, reconciled to that 

 degree of temperature. 



The wind continued blowing frefh from the North, till 

 the eighth, in the morning, when it became more moderate, Thurfdays. 

 with fair weather, and gradually changed its direction to the 

 Eaft, and afterward to the South. 



On the ninth, at noon, our latitude was 32° 16' ; our Friday 9. 

 longitude i66°4o'; and the variation 8° 30' Eaft. And on 

 the tenth, having eroded the track of the Spanifh. gal- Saturday ic. 

 Icons from the Manillas to Acapulco, we expected to have 

 fallen in with the Iiland of Rica de Plata, which, according 

 to De Lille's chart, in which the route of thofe mips is laid 

 down, ought to have been in fight ; its latitude, as there 



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