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some latitudes, which will be given in this report. There is one 

 fact worthy of remarking, which I obtained from the most ex- 

 perienced navigators, which is, that in all their voyages round 

 Cape Horn, from the first commencement of their entering the 

 Pacific until the present day, not a single vessel has been 

 wrecked or lost in doubling the Cape ; and these navigators sail 

 from home whenever they are ready, without the least regard to 

 the season of the year : still, however, all agree that March and 

 April are the best months to double the Cape, as fresh gales are 

 then frequent without dangerous storms. I noticed, from their 

 log-books and journals, that they reach the most dangerous parts 

 of the Cape navigation in about ninety or one hundred days from 

 our shores. 



