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eaufed the fliip to labour exceedingly. During the night ^ ^j^ ^■ 

 we had li^ht variable winds with conflant rain : this how- ' ' 



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ever was not of long continuance ; for at noon on the Sept'eaibcr. 

 nth a heavy ^ale- fprung up from the Eaft South Eaft ; Monday u. 

 the rain flill continuing without intermiilion. 



The almoft conftant fucceffion of bad weather we for 

 fome time paft had experienced, induced me to think that 

 the bad weather feafon was fet in, and that our making 

 a port on the coaft would be very precarious ; in that cafe 

 we fliould be obliged to water, and fpend the winter at 

 the Sandwich Illands. Under this conlideration, I judged 

 it prudent to put the ihip's company to an allowance of 

 water at the rate of two quarts a man a day. 



The gale continued to blow from the Eaftward and Wednef. 13. 

 Southward, with very little intermiilion, till noon on the 

 ,13 th; it then grew moderate. Our latitude then was 56° 

 37', and the longitude 138° 31'. Having then a moderate 

 breeze from the South by Eaft, we fteered Eafc North 

 Eaft, in order to make the land near Cape Edgecombe. At 

 nine o'clock the wind fhifted to the South Weft, blowing 

 frefh, with hazy weather. 



At midnight we hauled the wind to the Southward, 

 and at five o'clock the next morning bore away and jiiade xhurfjay 14, 

 fail, ftanding in for the land with a moderate breeze at 

 South Weft. At fix o'clock the land near Cape Edge- 

 combe was feen bearing North Eaft by North, and at 

 eight the land in fight extended from North half Weft 

 to North North Eaft half Eaft, diftant from the neareft 

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