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the year 



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found a Wefleni 



member and December 



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wind reigning from 42 



The neighbourhood of Tierra del Fuego, has been obferved by 



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moft tempefluou 



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we found this fe 



remarkably fmootl 



and the weather mild ; and though we exp 



enced a few fqualls, they were however, by no means more violent 

 than fome we had met with before in other feas. 



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We met with very little tempefluous weather, upon the whole 



during our three years 



peditiouj and had not any remarkable 



ftorm 



pt twice 



November the 27^ 



When we left the Cape of Good Hope, on 

 3772, and were ftanding to the South, we had during three weeks 

 very hard gales and a high fea. 



And the fecond 



when we 



g along the Eafl 



coafl of New Zeeland, towards Queen Charlotte's Sound, in Octo 

 ber 1773, we met a hard gale, which gradually increafed into a tem 

 pefti we were obliged to hand all our fails, and to lye to under ou 

 bare poles. 



The fea was long; the gale blowing off fhore, toffed 



our poor fliip ftrangely to and from, in a tempefluous ocean. 



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ilorm roared in the rigging, and broke the waves againfl th 



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