m A VOYAGE TO 
CHAP, been furveyed ; had it been known to afford fafe an- 
' — — cliorage, it would have been much more prudent to put 
in there and wait for a change of wind, than to attempt 
keeping the fea in circumifances fo very unfavourable, 
with fiiips fo Httle calculated to run along a great extent 
of lee fliore. This day the Prince of "Wales being two 
or three miles to the leev/ard, the fignal was made for 
her to tack into the fleet. At nine in the evening the 
wind coming to the eafl-fouth-eaflj Lieutenant Shortland 
fired a gun, and made the lignal to veer fliip and fail on 
the other tack. At this time the Prince of Wales was 
about five miles on the lee bow of the Alexander, and 
the Borrowdale and Friendfliip clofe in company ; but by 
twelve at midnight the Friendfliip only was in light. At 
two, the wind Iliifting again to the fouth-fouth-eaft, the 
lignal was once more made to veer fhip, and change the 
tack, as lying off eaft would clear the coalf ; a flrong 
current fetting to the fouthward» 
Lieutenant Shortland, having now loft fight of the 
Prince of Wales and Borrowdale, was fully determined 
to go to Lord Howe Illand to wait a day or two for them^ 
expeding that they might probably touch there with 
j^thjniy, ^ii^ilar intentions. On the iQth, therefore, he fleered a 
i7«8. clire(5l courfe for that illand, with a ftrong gale at fouth- 
weft, but as this wind, which was exadly favourable ta 
the intended courfe of the voyage, and made the an- 
choring 
