APPENDIX. No. VII. ADT 
with 5 fathoms, close to the westernedge ; it lies about halfway between Cabenda 
hook and Red point ; about 8, I returned to the ship: the soundings regular 
as before. 
June 3d. At noon observed in lat. 5°37/S, the high land of Cabenda, E b. 
N, and Red point SS EXE. For the last two days we have not been able to get 
sights for longitude. At 2wore ship, and stood to the southward with a moderate 
sea breeze at W b.S; we continued sounding every hour, and had constantly 
23 fathoms, until 11 o'clock, when it fell littke wind, which obliged us to anchor 
in the above depth, sandy clay of a greenish hue. 
June 4th. At daylight saw the land about Cabenda 5 or 6 leagues distant : 
during the whole of this day, the breezes were extremely light, and the weather 
dark and hazy, had no observation, current running N b.W, 13 mile an 
hour. 
June 5th. The whole of this day was calm, dark, and cloudy ; and we re- 
mained at anchor, current N N W, 12 mile an hour. 
June 6th. The whole of this forenoon was calm, dark, and cloudy ; at noon 
observed in 5° 40'S, at 2..30, the sea breeze came in at W b. S, when we 
weighed and made all possible sail to the southward : at 4 the haze cleared off a 
a little, saw the land, the southern extreme of which bore S S E, sounded in 15 
fathoms; from this time to 6 o’clock, we ran on a Sb.W course, gradually shoal- 
ing to 13 fathoms ; from 6 we kept on aS and Sb. W. course going 34 knots an 
hour till 9, keeping all the time the same depth of water: and then gradually 
deepening to 17 fathoms ; shortly after getting this latter depth, we had no bot- 
tom with 160, fathoms ; in about an hour after the wind headed us, and we ob- 
served an extremely great ripple all round the ship, making a noise like a mill 
sluice (apparently a very rapid’ current) ; we soon got out of this, and on trying 
for soundings without the hope of getting any, had 24 fathoms, muddy bottom ; 
- we immediately anchored at about half an hour after midnight, and found scarce- 
ly any current, what little there was ran to the southward; had it not been for 
this circumstance, should have concluded we had been drifted back again to the 
northward, which was Captain Tuckey’s opinion ; but considering we had always 
found a strong northerly current, when to the northward of the deep water 
channel, that now we must have crossed it, on finding it run to the southward, 
which proved to be the case. 
From the above it will appear that the deep water is much narrower than is 
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