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Cape of Good Hope, and had the fatisfadlon to enter Table Bair 



havlno; had a frefh gale 



the preceding night.. This view of the 



winds during our paffage will fliew at once the extent and the changes 



of the trade winds. Wherever 



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1 and another began, 

 there we had faint breezes and calms, though of ihort duration. 



In the year 1773, in our run from New-Zeeland to O-Taheitec, 

 we had, on the 20th of July, a S. E. wind in about 36° South Ig- 

 titude, which we thought to be the trade wind, though we were 

 foon undeceived, having many changes of winds after it : 



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fall in with the true fettled S. E. trade 



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9° South latitude 



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d blew fometimes 

 came near the iiles. 



freflier, fometimes fainter, efpecially when we came near 

 and it carried us to O-Taheitee on Augufl i6th. 



After we left the Society Illes, we ran towards the Friendly 



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Illes by help of the South Eail trade; though at the approach of a 

 hard fhower of rain and fome lightning it fliifted to various points; 



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but we foon recovered the true trade wind, and perhaps the direc- 

 tion of the wind was likewife altered by the vicinity of fome land j 

 for though we faw no more than one low illand in the whole run, 

 we might pafs feveral, at no great diftance, without feeins: them. 



•either in the night, or on account of their low fituation ; for the next 



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year we ran a little more North of this courfe and fell in with feve- 



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