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From my firft fetting out from England, 
I did not defign to touch at the Cape ; and 
that was one Reafon why I touch’d at Bra. 
zil, that there I might refrefh my Men, 
and prepare them for a long Run to New 
Holland. We had not yet feen the Land ; 
but about 2 in the Afternoon we faw the 
Ope-Land bearing Eafi: , at above 16 
Leagues diftance : And Captain Hammond 
being alfo bound to double the Cape, we 
jog’d on together this Afternoon and the 
next Day, and had feveral fair Sights of it ; 
which may be feen [_Table III. No. 6. 
7. 8.] 
To proceed , having ftill a Wefterly 
Wind , I jog’d on in company with the 
Antelope, till Sunday ^une the 4th at 4 in 
the Afternoon , when we parted ; they 
fleering away for the EaJlHndies , and I 
keeping an E. S. E. Courfe, the better to 
make my way for New Holland: For tho’ 
New Holland lies North-Eafterly from the 
Cape , yet all Ships bound towards that 
Coaft, or the Streights of Sundy, ought to 
keep for a while in the fame Parallel, or in 
a Lat. between ^ 5 and 40. at leaft a little to 
the S. of the Eaft, that they may continue 
in a variable Winds way ; and not venture 
too Toon to ftand fo far to the North, as to 
be within the verge of the Trade-Wind 
which will put them by their Eafterly 
Courfe. 1 he Wind increafed upon us ; but 
