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\nth 5 fathoms, close to the western edge ; it lies about half way between Cabenda 

 hook and Red point ; about 8, I returned to the ship : the soundings regular 

 as before. 



June 3d. At noon observed in lat, 5° 37' S, the high land of Cabenda, E b. 

 N, and Red point S S E|E. For the last two days we have not been able to get 

 sights for longitude. At 2wore ship, and stood to the southward with a moderate 

 sea breeze at W b. S ; we continued sounding every hour, and had constantly 

 23 fathoms, until 1 1 o'clock, when it fell little wind, which obhged us to anchor 

 in the above depth, sandy clay of a greenish hue. 



June 4th. At daylight saw the land about Cabenda 5 or 6 leagues distant : 

 during the whole of this day, the breezes were extremely light, and the weather 

 dark and hazy, had no observation, current running N b.W, 1| mile an 

 hour. 



June 5lh. The whole of this day was calm, dark, and cloudy ; and we re- 

 mained at anchor, current N N W, 1 1 mile an hour. 



June Gth. The whole of this forenoon was calm, dark, and cloudy ; at noon 

 obsei-ved in 5° 40' S, at 2.. 30, the sea breeze came in at W b. S, when we 

 weighed and made all possible sail to the southward : at 4 the haze cleared off a 

 a httle, saw the land, the southern extreme of which bore S S E, sounded in 15 

 fathoms; from this time to 6 o'clock, we ran on a Sb.W course, gradually shoal- 

 ing to 13 fathoms ; from 6 we kapt on a S and S b.W. course going 3| knots an 

 hour till !), keeping all the time the same depth of water : and then gradually 

 deepening to 1 7 fathoms ; shortly after getting this latter depth, we had no bot- 

 tom with" 160, fathoms ; in about an hour after the wind headed us, and we ob- 

 served an extremely great ripple all round the ship, making a noise hke a mill 

 sluice (apparently a very rapid current) ; we soon got out of this, and on trying 

 for soundings without the hope of getting anv, had 24 fathoms, muddy bottom ; 

 w-e immediately anchored at about half an hour after midnight, and found scarce- 

 ly any current, what little there was ran to the southward ; had it not been for 

 this circumstance, should have concluded we had been drifted back again to the 

 northward, which was Captain Tuckey's opinion ; but considering we had always 

 found a strong northerly current, when to the northward of the deep water 

 channel, that now we must have crossed it, on finding it run to the southward, 

 which proved to be the case. 



From the above it will appear that the deep water is much narrower than is 



