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1780. The latitude of the anchoring-place at 



February. ° * 



Prince's Ifland was 



Longitude - 



Dip of the South pole of the magnetic 

 needle - 



Variation of the compafs 

 Mean of the thermometer 



From the time of our entering the Straits of Banca, 

 we began to experience the powerful effects of this peftilen- 

 tial climate. Two of our people fell dangeroufly ill of ma- 

 lignant putrid fevers ; which however we prevented from 

 fpreading, by putting the patients apart from the reft, in 

 the moft airy births. " Many were auueked with teazing 

 coughs ; others complained of violent pains in the head ; 

 and even the healchieft among us felt a fenfation of fufFocat- 

 ing heat, attended by an infufTerablc languor, and a total 

 lofs of appetite. But though our fituation was for a time 

 thus uncafy and alarming, we had at laft the fingular fatis- 

 faction of efcaping from thefe fatal leas, without the lofs 

 of a fingle life ; a circumftance which was probably owing 

 in part to the vigorous health of the crews, when we firft 

 arrived here, as well as to the Ariel: attention, now become 

 habitual in our men, to the falutary regulations introduced 

 among A us by Captain Cook. 



On our leaving Prince's Ifland, and during the whole time 

 of our run from thence to the Cape of Good Hope, the crew* 

 of the Refolution was in a much more flckly Aate than that 

 of the Difcovcry. For though many of us continued, for 

 fame time, complaining of the effects of the noxious eli- 

 te we had left, yet happily we all recovered from them. 



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