412 VOYAGE IN SEARCH 



gular rock, which Teemed then to ifiue from the 

 bofom of the deep. 



At this time we faw the coaft trending pretty 

 regularly towards the eafl fouth-eaft; and its 

 little iinuofities were terminated by capes, the 

 moft prominent of which fcarcely extended two 

 kilometers into the fea. 



Being driven along by a boifterous wind, we 

 were not free from apprehenfion, as we were fo 

 near a coaft which did not afford us the fmalleft 

 Shelter; but we hauled off from it during the 

 night, by fteering fouth fouth-eaft. A very heavy 

 fea from the weft north-weft made our fhip labour 

 prodigioufly. From the time that we had been 

 failing in finooth water, we had loft the habit of 

 bearing fo much motion ; the impetuofity of the 

 wind was felt in fqualls, and allowed us to keep 

 under only a very fnug fail. 



At half paft fix o'clock in the morning of the 

 7th we ftecrcd to the north-eaft, in order to draw 

 in with the land, which we foon faw again in 

 that direction, being carried along by a very ftifF 

 breeze at weft. We had fallen a little to leeward. 

 The coaft then trended almoft dircclly to the 

 caftward. The interior of the country prcfented 

 the fame afpect as on the preceding day. We 

 there remarked vaft fpaces of a yellowifh colour, 

 which we took for fo many areas of a hard ft one, 



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