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l '?9- given, being 33 30' North, and its longitude 166° Eaft. Not- 

 v, v " < withstanding we were fo far advanced to the Northward, we 

 faw this day a tropic bird, and alfo feveral other kinds of 

 fea-birds ; i'uch as puilins, fea-parrots, fheerwaters, and al- 

 ba trofTes. 



Sunday Li. On the eleventh, at noon, we were in latitude 35* 30', 

 longitude 165° 45'; and during the courfe of the day, had 

 fea-birds, as before, and pafTed feveral bunches of fea-weed. 

 About the fame time, the Difcovery palled a log of wood ; 

 but no other figns of land were feen. 



Mosdiy 12. The next day the wind came gradually round to the Eaft r 

 and increafed to fo ffrong a gale, as obliged us to ftrike our 

 top-gallant yards, and brought us under the lower fails, 

 and the main top-fail clofe reefed. Unfortunately we were 

 upon that tack, which was the moft difadvantageous for our 

 leak. But, as we had always been able to keep it under 

 with the hand-pumps, it gave us no great uneafinefs, till 



TuefUay 13. the 13 th, about fix in the afternoon, when we were greatly 

 alarmed by a fuddcn inundation, that deluged the whole 

 fpace between decks. The water, which had lodged in the 

 coal-hole, not finding a fufficient vent into the well, had 

 forced up the platforms over it, and in a moment fet every- 

 thing afloat. Our fituation was indeed exceedingly didrefl- 

 ing; nor did we immediately fee any means of relieving 

 ourfclves. A pump, through the upper decks into the coal- 

 hole, could anfwer no end, as it would very foon have been 

 choaked up by the fmall coals ■, and, to bale the water out 

 with buckets, was become impracticable, from the number 

 of bulky materials that were waflied out or" the gunner's 

 ftorc-room into it, and which, by the mips motion, were 

 tofTcd violently from fide to fide. No other method was 



therefore 



