456 VOYAGE IN SEARCH 



horizon difpcrfed ; the wind fhiited to the wchS 

 ward, and blew very frefh. 



In the afternoon of the 3d of January 1793, 

 Captain Huon communicated to. Admiral D'En- 

 treeatleaux the damage which the Efper.ance's 

 rudder had fuftained. He informed him, that 

 his fhip's company bad long been red': 1 to a 

 pint and a hull' of water a dp that 



he had been obliged to lcdiiiribu- 



tion of an: and. that thirty 



caiks of water then formed. the whole hock re- 

 plaining on board of the Efperance. 



The next morning, the 4th, about half paft 

 ten o'clock, the Admiral lent him a letter, to 

 acquaint him with the rcfoiut:< 11 that he had 

 taken reflecting the fituation of the t wo fhips. 



At noon we were in .latitude 31 5-/ lbuth, 

 and longitude 129 io' call, and we faw the 

 land from caft to north by weft, being a myria- 

 meter from the ncarcft flu. 



As foon as the bent was hoifted in, we made 

 fail dole hauled on the larboard tack, with the 

 wind at call fouth rati, and flood on towards 

 Cape Di< men, thus taking our leave of an cx- 

 trernejj ! .inrn coail, upwards of a hundred and 

 rixty myriamet( rs of which we had jufT ranged 

 along, generally in a dire, 'ion from well by 

 fouth to eaft by north. Fifteen months before 

 us, Vancouver, alike thwarted by cafterly winds, 



had 



