WHITE'S JOURNAL OF A 
made the lignal for the longitude by lunar obfervation, 
which was found to be 135° 30' Eaft. In the evening fome 
birds, called Mother Gary's Chickens, were round the fhip. 
5th. The weather cold and clear, the wind N. W. PalTed 
fome fea weed. In the morning the third mate thought he 
faw fome divers ; but as they were not feen by any other 
perfon, not much attention was paid to the report. At 
night we had fome fqualls, with light fhowers of rain. 
7th. Early in the morning the Lady Penrhyn made the 
fignal for feeing land; but it only proved to be a fog- 
bank ; a circumftance that often deceives the anxious 
mariner. About two o'clock in the afternoon the Prince 
of Wales, being the headmoft fhip, made the fame fignal. 
The Charlotte being next in fucceflion, the fignal was 
fcarcely difplayed, before we alfo difcovered it very plainly 
through the haze ; and repeated the fignal, which was an- 
fwered by the Sirius. By our laft lunar obfervation this 
land appears to be well laid down in Mafkelyne's Tables, 
and in the journals of the celebrated Cook : but to the 
furprife of everyone on board, we found a fmall chart, pub- 
lifhed by Steele, and which was held in little eftimation, to 
be not only accurate as to the {ituation> but alfo to give a to- 
lerable 
