AN ACCOUNT OF 
1783. 
JULY. 
Tuefday 22. 
Wednefday 
23 - 
About nine o’clock, being got to fome diftance from the 
land, they met with a very high fea, which obliged them 
to lay to, in order to fecure their cattle, and other live 
flock, as alfo their anchors, cables, and harbour-rigging. 
About eleven o’clock they made fail again, and by a very 
good obfervation, at noon, were in latitude 21 0 28' north; at 
the fame time could juft fee the land bearing north, at the 
diftance of about eleven leagues, as near as they could judge, 
the weather being rather hazy. In the afternoon the lafh- 
ings of the booms broke, and they fell to leeward, which 
obliged them to keep the fhip before the wind until they 
were replaced and fecured, which having done, they re¬ 
fumed their courfe. In the evening, they obferving it to 
lighten very ftrongly from the fouthward, they clofe reefed 
their top-fails, expe6ting it to blow from that quarter. 
Next day the weather continued moderate but cloudy; 
and they had a great fea from the eaftward, which made the 
fhip labour, fo as to oblige them to pump every two hours. 
The boatfwain and caroenter were both taken ill in the 
night with a cold and a flight fever. In the afternoon a fail 
was feen to the S. E. which they took to be a Portuguese 
veflel bound to Macoa. The wind veered round to the 
fouthward this day; no obfervation of latitude. 
The wind foutherly, with cloudy weather and fome light 
fqualls and rain. They noticed this forenoon feveral rip- 
plings in the water, as if in a tide or current; the fea was 
fomewhat 
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