TO KAMTSCHATKA. l6i 



Declination of the magnetic 



needle - - - - .5" 37' 00" E. 



During the night we had rain and violent wind 

 from the N.E., and considered ourselves very 

 happy in being out of the coral islands ; notwith- 

 standing the impetuous wind, the sea was ex- 

 tremely smooth, v/hicli made us suppose land to be 

 near us in the N.E., on which account we could 

 only venture to put up a few sails. 



I add no proofs that the discoveries are new ; 

 the greater part of my readers will not dispute my 

 assertion, and Captain Krusenstern will have the 

 g:oodness to convince the others, by giving a short 

 view of this, as well as the subsequent discoveries. 



April the 28th : latitude 12° 2', longitude 154° 38'. 

 At six o'clock in the evening, we were in the 

 place where Baumann's Islands are supposed to 

 lie, without perceiving any land j we then steered 

 to the N.W., to follow the line where the islands 

 of Roggenwein and Penhoven are supposed to be 

 situated, but, on the following day, we had passed 

 through this part also, without having discovered 

 any thing, which makes me suppose that these 

 islands, w^hose existence has hitherto been doubted, 

 do not exist at all. I then directed my course to 

 Penrhyn's islands, which were only seen at a dis- 

 tance by their discoverer, and never afterwards 

 explored ; but as this was a longer voyage, and 

 would greatly diminish our stock of water, from 

 this day none of us had more than one bottle daily. 



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