Shear- water’s. Shark* s cooKt, 9^ 
now out of fight of Land, and had been 1699.' 
fo 4 or 5 Days : but the Wind’s now hang- 
ing in the South was an apparent Sign 
that we were ftill too nigh the Shore to 
receive the True General Eaft-Trade; as 
the Eafterly Winds we had before fhew’d 
that we were too far off the Land to have 
the Benefit of the Coaifing South-Trade : 
and the faintnefs of both thefe Winds, and 
their often fhifting from the S. S. W. to the 
S. E. with Squalls, Rain and fmall Gales, 
\ were a Confirmation of our being between 
• ^he Verge of the S. Coafting-Trade, and 
that of the True Trade; which is here, 
regularly, S. E. ' 
The third of Maj being in Lat. 20 deg. 
00 min. and Merid. diftance Well: from 
Cape Salvadore 2^4 Miles, the Variation 
was 7 deg. 00 min. We faw no Fowl 
but Shear- waters, as our Sea- men call them, 
being a fmall black Fowl that fweep the 
Water as they fiy , and are much in the 
Seas that lie without either of the Tropicks : 
they are not eaten. We caught 5 fmall 
Sharks, each. 6 Foot 4 Inches long; and 
they were very good Food for us. The 
next day we caught 5 more Sharks of the 
fame fize, and we eat them alfo, efteem- 
ing them as good FiOi boil’d and prefsr, 
and then ftew’d with Vinegar and Pep- 
per. 
We 
