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AN ACCOUNT OF 
1783. 
AUGUST. 
Sunday 3. 
Monday 4. 
Tuefday 5. 
Wednefday 
6 . 
Thurfday 7. 
Friday 8. 
cleaning the fhip and fetting up the rigging. In the after¬ 
noon they had an obfervation for the longitude, by the dis¬ 
tance of the fun and moon, by which they found themfelves 
in 126 degrees and a half eaft of Greenwich. The follow¬ 
ing morning being alfo fair, divine fervice was performed 
upon deck; a ceremony never omitted on Sundays when the 
weather would allow of it. In the afternoon they got another 
obfervation for the longitude, which confirmed that taken 
the preceding day. At night they met with frefh gales of 
wind, fqually weather, and much rain, which continued 
molt part of the next day; towards the evening of which 
they favv numbers of birds and fifh, likewife fome drifts 
of pieces of wood or bamboo, they therefore altered their 
courfe more to the fouthward, and went under an eafy fail, 
keeping a good look out, until morning, when it being 
very tempeftuous they brought to, and handed their topfails, 
which before had been clofe reeft. The weather continuing 
to blow a ftorm, they could fhow but very little fail, being 
obliged to lay to under the ftorm ftay-fails, which continu¬ 
ed till near noon on the yth ; the ftorm then abating, and 
the weather clearing up, they got an obfervation for the 
latitude, by which they found themfelves in io° i6' north. 
The afternoon the wind was foutherly, with frefh gales, but 
dry, fo that they were able the following morning to clean 
between decks, and alfo to fumigate the fhip with gunpow¬ 
der. The cattle had all perifhed in the iaft ftorm, except 
one 
