98 Fowls Jhowing the C. of G. Hope mar. I 
An.iSc)'). Two days before I made the Cape of . 
G. Hope, my Variation was 7 deg. 58 min. 
Weft. I was then in 43 deg. 27 min. 
Eaft Longit. from C. SdvHor , being in 
Lat. 35 deg. min. this was thefirft of 
’^um. The fecond of "^une I faw a large 
.black Fowl, with a whitiQi flat Bill, fly 
by us ; and took great notice of it, becaufe 
in the EAsi-IndU Waggoner, or Pilot-book, 
there is mention made of large Fowls, as 
big as Ravens , with white flat Bills and 
black Feathers , that fly not above 50 « 
Leagues from the Cape^ and are lookt on as 
a Sign of ones being near it. My Reck-f 
oning made me then think my felf above 
90 Leagues from the Cape, according to the 
Longitude which the Cape hath in the com- 
mon Sea-Charts : fo that I was in fome 
doubt, whether thefe were the right 
Fowls fpoken of in the Waggoner ; or 
whether thofe Fowls might not fly farther 
off Shore than is there mentioned ; or whe- 
ther, as it prov’d, I might not be nearer 
the Cape than I reckoned my felf to be : for 
I found, foon after , that 1 was not then 
above 25 or 50 Leagues at moft from the 
Cape. Whether the fault were in the 
Cliarts laving down the Cape too much to 
the Fiaft from BraHl, or were rather in 
our Reckoning, I could not tell : but our 
Reckonings are liable to fuch Uncerrain- 
tlcs from Steerage, Log, Currents, Half 
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