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^ ^y^ ^- South Eaft by Eaft : foon afterwards the South point of 



< ' the Ifle Saint Hermogenes bore South by Weft, fix leagues 



July. diftant. The morning proved fo very foggy, that we loft 

 wedne . 19. £g},j. ^f j^^d J howeveT, towards eleven o'clock, the fog 

 difperfing, \\e faw the Barren Iflands, bearing North 

 North Weft, about three leagues diftant ; pn this I fteered 

 North Weft by North, in order to run to the Weft- 

 ward of them ; intending^ if poffible, to make the inlet, 

 already mentioned, near Cape Bede; as we had thick, 

 rainy weather, with figns of an appsoaching gale, Whilft 

 ftanding on in this direction, the lead was kept going; 

 but we got no bottom with thirty fathoms of line. At 

 one o'clock the Wefternmoft part of the Barren Ifles bore 

 Eaft North Eaft, three miles diftant ; on this I ftood over 

 for Cape Bede, fteering North by Eaft, under double-reefed 

 topfails, with a ftrong breeze from the Eaft South Eaft, 

 and thick foggy weather. At four o'clock we faw the 

 land near Cape Bede, bearing North North Eaft, about 

 three leagues diftant. In running from the Barren Ifles 

 we paffed feveral ftrong ripplings of a tide ; and on ftand- 

 ing well in with Point Bede, the wind fhifted to North 

 Eaft and Eaft North Eaft, blowing in fudden pufFs from 

 the land, with rain and dark gloomy weather. 



I HAULED in as near the fhore as the wind would per- 

 mit ; and when we had brought Cape Bede to bear South 

 34° Eaft, four miles diftant, an appeai"ance of a harbour 

 prefented itfelf, with a fmall ifland fituated direftly in the 

 entrance, and bearing from South 87° Eaft, to South 

 81° Eaft, diftant three miles. We ftood for this opening, 

 but made little progrefs, the wind growing light, and the 

 little we had being direflly againft us. Juft at this time 



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