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were employed in making ready for fea; and, on the nth, 1779. 
at two in the morning, we began to unmoor; but, before , ^ u ”!‘ , 
we had got one anchor up, it blew fo ftrong a gale from the Friday u. 
North Eaft, that we kept fall, and moored again; conjec¬ 
turing, from the pofition of the entrance of the bay, that 
the current of wind would let up the channel. Accord¬ 
ingly, the pinnace being fent out to examine the paffage, 
returned with an account, that the wind blew ftrong from 
the South Eaft, with a great fwell, fetting into the bay, 
which would have made any attempt to get to fea very ha¬ 
zardous. 
Our friend Port now took his leave of us, and carried 
with him the box with our journals, which was to go by 
the Major, and the pacquet that was to be fent exprefs. On 
the 12th, the weather being moderate, w r e began to un- Saturdays, 
moor again; but, after breaking the meffenger, and reev¬ 
ing a running purchafe with a lix inch hawfer, which alfo 
broke three times, we w T ere obliged, at laft, to heave a ftrain 
at low water, and w T ait for the flowing of the tide to raife 
the anchor. This projedt fucceeded; but not without da¬ 
maging the cable in the wake of the hawfe. At three, we 
weighed the beft bower, and fet fail; and, at eight, having 
little wind, and the tide making againft us, we dropped an¬ 
chor again in ten fathoms, off the mouth of Rakowina har¬ 
bour ; the ojirog bearing North by Eaft half Eaft, two miles 
and a half diftant; the Needle Rocks, on the Eaft lide of the 
paffage, South South Eaft half Eaft; and the high rock, on 
the Weft lide of the paffage, South. 
On the 13th, at four in the morning, we got under way Sunday t 3 . 
with the ebb tide; and, there being a dead calm, the boats 
were fent ahead to tow the fhips. At ten, the wind fpring- 
ing up from the South Eaft by South, and the tide having 
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