^ whales. Innumerable Fowls. 
699. We had nothing of Remark from 
of May to the loth, only now and 1 
feeing a fmall Whale fpouting up 
Water. We had the Wind Eafterly, i 
we ran with it to the Southward, runr f 
in this time from the Lat. of 20 deg. oc : . 
to 29 deg. 5 min. S. and having, then,' 
3 m. E. Long, from C. Salvadore ; the . 
nation increafing upon us, at pref , 
notwithftanding we went Eaft. 
had all along a great difference between 
Morning and Evening Amplitudes ; uf 
ly a degree or two, and fometimes m 
We were now in the True Trade, ' 
therefore made good way to the So' 
ward, to get without the Verge of uic 
General Trade-Wind into a Wefterly 
Wind’s w'ay, that might carry us towards 
the Cape of Good Hope. By the 1 2th of 
Maj^ being in Lat. 31 deg. 10 min. we 
began to meet with Wefterly Winds, 
which frefhned on us, and did not leave us 
till a little before we made the Cape. Some- 
times it blew fo hard that it put us under 
a fore-courfe ; efpecially in the Night : 
but in the day-time we had commonly our 
Main Top-fail rift. We met with nothing 
of moment ; only we part by a dead 
Whale, and faw millions (as I may fay) 
of Sea-Fowls about the Carkafs (and as 
far round about it as we could fee) fome 
Feeding, and the reft flying about, or fit- 
ting 
