VOYAGE IN SEARCH 



copper-coloured tint, as at the approach of a 

 lionn. > 



The Ifland of St. Paul, which is about two 

 mvriameters in circumference, is fituated in the 

 latitude of 3 7 56' lbuth, and longitude of 75 2' 



The variation of tfic compafs there was 1 7 30' 

 weft. 



The wind, which continued to blow between 

 the north-weft and the fouth-wefr, occafioncd 

 the mercury in the barometer to defcend gradu- 

 ally eight lines; it had, on the ift of April, 

 flood at 27 inches 7 lines, when fome very 

 heavy fqualls carried us as much as ten knots an 

 hour before the wind, under the forefail and the 

 main-topfail, which was lowered on the cap on 

 account of its violence : this was the only day 

 during the whole voyage that we went fo fa ft 

 through the water. We had now reached the 

 latitude of 40 30' fouth, and the longitude of 

 aft. 



We had hitherto thought that at lcaft we had 

 not been deceived at Breft, refpecling the qua- 

 of the bifcuit; but it was difcovercd, when 

 to<> late, that a part of it had already been on 

 lingly, after we had been five 

 months at fea, it was filled with a prodigious 

 number of produced little weevils 



of the fpecics known by the name of eUrmjUs 



paniceus* 



