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sand and in places small rocks. Many different kinds of ducks flew past 

 our ship. 



At two in the morning we distinguished some very high mountains and, 

 as the light at the time was not very good, we brought to. An hour later 

 the land stood out much better and we could make out trees. This must 

 be America, judging by the latitude and the longitude, for we were at that 

 hour in latitude 55°2i' N and longitude from Vaua 6i°55', From this place 

 we took the following bearings according to the corrected compass: in the 

 south the land seemed to end in S36°i9'E, distant about 30 knots; the 

 shore nearest to us had three projections in N72°4i'E; the cape^ ending 

 in the north bore Ni9°4i'E. From the third hour proceeded N^W 8 

 knots. At 5:30 in the morning the three projections were on the rhumb 

 S7o°i9'E; the cape which seemed to end in the north was on the rhumb 

 N34°4i'E. We examined the newly discovered coast to the north; the 

 low cape was on the rhumb N39°22'E; at 8 130 in the morning the coast 

 seemed to end in N33°o'W.* 



July 16, 1 7 41 



Latitude by observation 56° 15'; from Vaua, longitude 60° 57' 2". 

 rhumb N84°48'E, distance 2,140 knots. 



At the fourth hour in the afternoon we lowered a boat and sent boat- 

 swain Trubitsin and eight men to the bay sighted an hour and a half ago. 

 When he reached there he had orders to take soundings and to examine 

 it to see whether it offered good anchorage and protection from the winds. 

 He was told to keep an eye on our ensign flagstaff and to listen for guns 

 signaling for him to return to the ship. At 6 130 in the afternoon we saw our 

 boat near the shore; we came about so as to get closer to it and hove to. 



At the beginning of the eighth hour the boat came back and we took 

 it in tow and stood off. Trubitsin reported that he took soundings within 

 60 fathoms of the cape and got 40 fathoms and that the bay was unpro- 

 tected from south and west winds. He said also that he saw large fir, 

 spruce, and pine trees on the beach, many sea lions on the rocks, but no 

 sign of human beings or their habitations. At the seventh hour in the 

 morning there was an endless flight of large flocks of birds past the ship, 

 the same species that are found in Kamchatka and known as aru and 

 urili [murres and cormorants]. 



At noon we were from seven to three knots from shore, depth of water 



3 Cape Addington. (Identifications in this and the next chapter by E. P. B.) 

 * Coronation Island. — [The lack of chronological sequence in the entry under 

 July 15 may be due to the fact that the first paragraph is a general summary of the 

 events of the day, while the second paragraph takes them up in detail. To this 

 may also be due the seeming discrepancy in the hour when land was first sighted. 

 At 2 A. M. the mountain tops were first seen; at 3 A. M. the coast itself became 

 visible. — Edit. Note.] 



