VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES. 
moft indifferent antifcorbutics. For the latter we were in- 
debted to the humanity of Lord Sydney and Mr. Nepean, 
principal and under fecretaries of ftate. 
24th. The weather ftill dark and gloomy. Had feveral 
birds round the fhip of the albatrofs and peteral kind ; 
with what appeared to me to be fomething of the fea-hawk 
fpecies. 
27th. Dark hazy weather, with fome light fqualls. We 
paffed more fea weed ; fome gulls, and many of the before- 
mentioned birds, about the £hip. 
30th and 31ft. Strong breezes, with unfettled-looking 
weather ; birds ftill about us, and likewife fome whales. 
January ift, 1788. The new year was introduced 
with a pretty heavy gale of wind from the northward and 
weftward, which was the firfl; we had encountered fince 
we left England. It began a little before 12 o'clock the 
preceding night, and continued till feven this evening. 
The Sirius was the whole day under her ftay-fails; and the 
convoy under their fore-fail and ftay-fails. 
2d and 3d. Smart gales, with dark gloomy weather. 
Some feals and oceanic birds about the fhip. 
4th. Cloudy weather, in latitude 44° 2'S. The Sirius 
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