Mr. W AFERV Voyages, &c. i j 5 



Men, newly coming out of a hot Coun- 

 try, could hardly endure the Deck. 



In all our Paffage round Terra del Fuega, 

 the weather was foftormy for three Weeks, 

 that we lay to the Southward of Cape Horn, 

 and the Sun and Stars fo obfeur'd, that we 

 could take no Obfervation of our Lat. yet, 

 by our Reckoning, we were in very near 

 6$ Deg. S. Lat. which is the fartheft to 

 the South that any European , probifety, 

 ever yet was, and perhaps any Man. When 

 we were in Lat. 62. Deg. 30 Min. we be- 

 gan to think of fhifting our Courfe to the 

 Northward again, toward the IfLthiopick 

 and Atlantick Seas • and we foon brought 

 our felve? to ftand E- N. E. and E. and by 

 N. and kept much thofe Courfes for a 

 great way. In our Paffage we had allow'd 

 for three Points Wefterly Variation : But 

 when we came to have a good Obfervati- Mifrcck- 

 on we found that we had gone to the Eaft-JSSS, 

 ward, making our way E. and by S. We 

 found therefore that we had miftaken the 

 Variation of the Compafs, fo that we 

 concluded the Variation to be Eafterly, 

 and fteer'd away N. N. E. and Nf. E- and 

 by N- 



By this means, when we came into the 

 Latitude of the River of 'Plate, along 

 which we intended to run, we reckon'd 

 our felves to be about 100 Leagues off 

 Land $ and flood in dire&ly for the Shore, 



not 



