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great diftance. The wind was faint : we worked 

 to windward, and as foon as the day broke on 

 the 24th, we difcovered that fhip not far from 

 us; the wind fhortly began to blow ftrong from 

 the fouth-weft, and for fome time carried us fall 

 through the water, on an eafterly courfe. 



At noon we were in latitude 34 14' fouth, 

 and longitude 121 2' eaft ; and two hours after, 

 we difcovered behind fome iflots, a large bight, 

 which appeared to us to afford an excellent 

 fhelter.' 



We were apprized of the prefence of fome na- 

 tives, by fires, the fmoke of whieh we faw rifing 

 pretty far from the more, from feveral points 

 very diflant from each other. 



The barometer having fallen 1 111 lower than 

 when the gale forced us to anchor in Legrand's 

 Bay, we flood out to the offing, in order that we 

 might not be hemmed in on this dangerous 

 coafl; we then brought to, and remained the 

 whole night with our head to the fouth fouth-eaft , 

 and fouth. 



The lea was very high : the wind blew 

 with violence from the fouth-weft to the weft 

 fouth-'weft ; after having gradually increafed, it 

 raged with the greateft impetuofity during al- 

 mott the whole night, and raifed the waves to a 

 prodigious height; we had not yet been fo vio- 

 lently toffed about by a florm. 



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