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their fur jackets, and the reft of their cold country clothes, 1779. 
were kicked about the decks as things of no value ; though 
it was generally known, in both ftiips, that we were to make 
another voyage toward the pole. They were, of courfe, 
picked up by the officers ; and, being put into calks, re- 
ftored about this time to the owners. 
In the afternoon, we obferved fome of the fheathing 
floating by the Ihip ; and, on examination, found that 
twelve or fourteen feet had been waftied off' from under 
the larboard-bow, where we luppofed the leak to have 
been; which, ever Since our leaving Sandwich Iflands, had 
kept the people almoft conftantly at the pumps, making 
twelve inches water an hour. This day we faw a number 
of fmall crabs, of a pale blue colour; and had again, in com¬ 
pany, a few albatroffes and ftieerwaters. The thermometer, 
in the night-time, funk eleven degrees; and although it 
ftill remained as high as 59 0 , yet we buffered much from 
the cold; our feelings being, as yet, by no means recon¬ 
ciled to that degree of temperature. 
The wind continued blowing frelh from the North, till 
the eighth, in the morning, when it became more mode- Thurfday 3, 
rate, with fair weather, and gradually changed its direction 
to the Eaft, and afterward to the South. 
On the ninth, at noon, our latitude was 32 0 16'; our Ion- Friday 9. 
gitude 166° 40"; and the variation 8° 30' Eaft. And on the 
tenth, having croffed the track of the Spanilh galleons Saturday!©, 
from the Manillas to Acapulco, we expelled to have fallen 
in with the Ifland of Rica de Plata, which, according to 
De Lille’s chart, in which the route of thofe ffiips is laid 
down, ought to have been in light; its latitude, as there 
given, being 33 0 30" North, and its longitude 166 0 Eaft. 
Notwithstanding we were fo far advanced to the North¬ 
ern L. III. A a ward, 
