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"were employed in making ready for fea ; and, on the nth, '77J>. 



. . 1 June. 



at two in the morning, we began to unmoor ; but, before <-; — — — # 

 we had got one anchor up, it blew fo flrong a gale from the 

 North Eaft, that we kept faft, and moored again ; conjectur- 

 ing, from the pofition of the entrance of the bay, that the 

 current of wind would fet up the channel. Accordingly, 

 the pinnace being fent out to examine the pafTage, returned 

 with an account, that the wind blew flrong from the South 

 Eaft, with a great fwell, fetting into the bay, which would 

 have made any attempt to get to fea very hazardous. 



Our friend Port now took his leave of us, and carried with 

 him the box with our journals, which was to go by the 

 Major, and the pacquet that was to be fent exprefs. On the 

 1 2th, the weather being moderate, we began to unmoor Saturdays, 

 again ; but, after breaking the mefTenger, and reeving a 

 running purchafe with a fix inch hawfer, which alfo 

 broke three times, we were obliged, at laft, to heave a 

 flrain at low water, and wait for the flowing of the tide to 

 raife the anchor. This project fucceeded ; but not without 

 damaging the cable in the wake of the hawfe. At three 

 we weighed the bell bower, and fet fail j and, at eight, 

 having little wind, and the tide making againft us, we 

 dropped anchor again in ten fathoms, off the mouth of 

 Rakowina harbour ; the ojlrog bearing North by Eaft half 

 Eaft, two miles and a half diftant ; the needle rocks on the 

 Eaft fide of the pafTage South South Eaft half Eaft ; and the 

 high rock, on the Weft fide of the pafTage, South. 



On the 1 3 th, at four in the morning, we got under way Suaday i 3 , 

 with the ebb tide ; and, there being a dead calm, the boats 

 were fent ahead to tow the fhips. At ten, the wind 

 fpringing up from the South Eaft by South, and the tide 



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