1 1 1 Seafon of Wefterly Winds here. 
^«.i699. The Wind blew extraordinary hard all 
Wednefdaj^ the 7th of but abated of 
its fiercenefs before Night : Yet it continu- 
ed a brisk Gale till about the i6th, and ftill 
a moderate one till the 1 9th Day ; by which 
time we had run about 600 Leagues: For 
the moft part of which time the Wind was 
in for^e point of the Weft, mz. from the 
W. N. W. to the S. by W. It blew hard- 
eft when at W. or between the W. and S. 
W. but after it veered more Southerly the i 
foul Weather broke up : This I obferved j 
at other times alfo in thefe Seas, that when 
the Storms at Weft veered to the South- 
ward they grew lefs ; and that when the 
Wind came to the E. of the S. we had 
ftill fmaller Gales, Calms, and fair Wea- 
ther. As for the Wefterly Winds on that 
fide the Cape^ we like them never the worfe 
for being violent , for they drive us the 
fafter to the Eaftward ; and are therefore 
the only Winds coveted by thofe who fail 
towards fuch parts of the Ea-Ji-lndies^ as 
lie South of the Equator ; as Timor, 'Java, 
■And Emnatra; and by the Ships bound for 
China, or any other that are to pafs through 
the Streights of Sundy. Thofe*Ships having 
once paft the Cape, keep commonly pretty 
far Southerly, on ptirpole to meet with thefe 
Weft Winds, which in the Winter Seafon 
of titcfe Climates they foon meet with ; for 
then the Winds are genes ally Wefterly at 
