362 APOSTLES —JUDGES—CURRENT. Dec. 1829. 
night. Contrary to my expectation, the wind did not much 
increase ; but the thick weather, and a heavy swell, induced 
me to stand farther out than J had at first intended. At eleven, 
P.M., we wore and stood in until daylight on the 4th, when we 
found ourselves so much to the southward, that the land about 
Cape Pillar bore N. b. W., the Cape itself being shut in. We 
steered for the land, hoping to turn the day to some account ; 
but those hopes soon ceased, for before we had run sufficient 
distance to make a serviceable base line, the weather became so 
thick as to oblige us to haul our wind. We saw just enough 
to make out a number of rocks and breakers, lying at a consi- 
derable distance off shore.. After noon it was clearer, and we 
again stood in-shore; but found that the current was setting 
us so fast to the southward, that it was necessary to carry all 
sail and keep on a wind, to avoid losing ground ; yet, with a 
fresh, double-reefed topsail breeze and a deeply laden weatherly 
vessel, we could not hold our own, and at seven in the evening 
were close to an islet which lies off Cape Sunday. We had seen 
very little of the coast thus far: the current had rendered the 
patent log useless for measuring bases, and the weather was 
very unfavourable for astronomical observations. The land 
appeared to be high and mountainous, as far as Cape Deseado, 
whence it seemed lower and more broken, forming a large bay 
between that cape and Cape Sunday. Many rocks on which 
the sea breaks violently lie at a distance from the shore, besides 
those two clusters called the ‘ Apostles’ and the ‘ Judges: ’ the 
latter off Cape Deseado, and the former off Apostle Point, a 
little south of Cape Pillar. 
‘¢ 5th. To our mortification, we found ourselves a great way 
off shore; and Landfall Island, which was eight miles to lee- 
ward the last evening, was now in the wind’s eye, at a distance 
of about six leagues. A strong wind, with much swell, pre- 
vented our regaining lost ground in a northerly direction, I 
therefore preferred standing to the S.E. by the wind, intending 
to seek fora harbour, as it seemed hopeless to try to survey 
this coast while under sail, with such obstacles to contend 
against as a current setting about a mile an hour, and a sky 
