THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 4*7 



Having completed our victualling, and furnifhed our- '783. 



felves with the necefTary fupply of naval ftores, we failed ^— ^~~> 



out of the Bay on the 9th of May, and on the 14th, we got Tuefday 9 . 

 into the South Eaft trade- wind, and fleered to the Weft ward of 



the iflands of St. Helena and Afcenfion. On the 31ft, being Wednef. 31. 



in latitude 12 48' South, longitude 15 40' Weft, the mag- Sunday 1+ ' 

 netic needle was found to have no dip. 



On the 1 2th of June, we palled the equator for the fourth J">*- 

 time during this voyage, in longitude 26 16' Weft. We ****** Ifc 

 now began to perceive the effects of a current fetting North 

 by Eaft, half a knot an hour. It continued in this direc- 

 tion till the middle of July, when it began to fet a little to Satardiy i S . 

 the Southward of the Weft. 



On the 1 2th of Auguft, we made the Weftern coaft of Ire- A ugu ft. 

 land, and after a fruitlcfs attempt to get into Port Galway, Saturda y <*• 

 from whence it was Captain Gore's intention to have fent 

 the journals and maps of our voyage to London, we were 

 obliged, by ftrong Southerly winds, to fteer to the North- 

 ward. Our next object was to put into Lough Swilly ; but 

 the wind continuing in the fame quarter, we ftood on to 

 the Northward of Lewis Ifland ; and on the 2?d of Auguft, iwdayza. 

 at eleven in the morning, both mips came to an anchor at 

 Stromnefs. From hence, I was difpatched by Captain Gore, 

 to acquaint the Board of Admiralty with our arrival ; and 

 on the 4th day of October the fhips arrived fafe at the We dnefTi 

 Nore, after an abfence of four years, two months, and 

 twenty-two days. 



On quitting the Difcovery at Stromnefs, I had the fatis- 

 faction of leaving the whole crew in perfect health ; and at 

 the fame time, the number of convalefcents on board the 

 Refolution, did not exceed two or three, of whom only one 

 was incapable of fervice. In the courfe of our voyage, the 



i< Refolution 



