II* VOVAGE IN SEARCH 



CHAPTER IV. 



Departure from the- Cqpe- of Good Hope. Death 

 qf the Carpenter of the . Recherche. Various 

 events. Extraordinary flight of the albatrofs. 

 JVe make the Ifland of St. Paul. Its forefls on 

 fire. Prodigious quantity of infecls i/fue from 

 our lifcuit. Violent ejfetl of thefea. The Ad- 

 miral is dangeroufly hurt. Luminous /parks at 

 the extremity of our conductors. Large pho/- 

 phoric molecules. A mi/lake in the hearings % 

 taken by If'illaumez, occa/ions us to enter Storm 

 Bay, taking it for Adventure Bay. General 

 remarks on the variation of the magnetic needle, 

 Diminution of the pho/phore/cence of the fea- 

 'er, in proportion as we increafe our diflance 

 from the land. Direction of -the currents. // 

 is found necejfary to warm the place where the 

 time-keepers are depo/lul. lie anchor in Port 

 D'Entrccaflcaux. 



W E were now waiting only for a fair wind 

 :uit the Cape, when, on the 16th of Febru- 

 ary, about ten o'clock in the morning, a breeze 

 fprang up from the fouth-cafr, and determined 

 to weigh anchor. Scarcely were we under 

 (ail, before a fquall came down from the moun- 

 tain?, and blew with fo much violence, that, 



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