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VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY. 



CHAP. XI. 



FROM THE SANDWICH ISLANDS TO RADACK. 



The 17th of December, latitude 19° 44/, longitude 

 1G0° 7'' Since we left the island of Woahoo, we 

 have always had either calm, or a very faint 

 wind from S.E. ; besides this, the strong current 

 from S.W. has carried us in three days 45 miles to 

 N.E. ; but it has now taken its direction to S.W. 



On the Slst, at six o'clock in the evening, 

 we were in latitude iG"" 55', longitude 169° IC, 

 consequently on the same parallel, and 15 miles 

 distant from Cornwallis Island. A sailor sat con- 

 stantly at the mast-head without descrying land, 

 whicli, however, we could not doubt to be near at 

 hand, on account of the great number of sea-fowl 

 which hovered round us. As soon as the sun 

 sunk into the ocean, I kept the ship against the 

 wind, and tacked during the night under few sails, 



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