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we were enabled to take lunar distances with .lupiter, 

 by whicli the resulting longitude led us to feel 

 pretty well assured that we were not yet so near 

 East Cape as we had supposed. 



The 28th saw us still captive at Lorenne, and 

 although we were singularly fortunate in our place of 

 detention the delay was a serious misfortune ; but 

 clear weather was indispensable to the due performance 

 of our duties, and snow fell incessantly. 



So we set to work to exchange more information, 

 and received much enlightenment upon the mean- 

 ing of the word Tuski, which was of great import- 

 ance in influencing my views respecting the tribe, 

 although my present conclusions have come only 

 tardily and after nnich reflection. 



The opening day of March enabled us to set forth 

 once more, now for the purpose of viewing Yandangah. 

 After bordering the coast for about three and a half 

 miles, we observed the settlement spread over a large 

 extent of uneven ground. It consisted of twenty- 

 six huts intermingled with numerous boats, and a very 

 great number of whale-bones placed in all positions, 

 and scattered in all directions. The weather M^as 

 unfavourable, turning out snowy, but this did not 

 deter us from getting some information of, if real, 

 great importance. 



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