THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
flock of ducks, and many tropic birds, alfo dolphins and i 779 . 
porpuffes, and ftill continued to pafs feveral pumice-ftones. l Noveinben . 
We fpent the night upon our tacks, and, at fix in the 
morning of the 27th, again bore away Weft in fearch of Saturday z 7 . 
the Bafhees. 
I now began to be a little apprehenfive, left, in fearch- 
ing for thole illands, we fhould get fo much to the South¬ 
ward as to be obliged to pafs to leeward of the Pratas. 
In this cafe, it might have been exceedingly difficult for 
fuch bad-failing lhips as ours to fetch Macao, particularly 
fhould the wind continue to blow, as it now did, from 
the North North Eaft and North. As I had fame doubts 
whether Mr. Dalrymple’s charts were on board the Refo- 
lution, I made fail and hailed her; and having acquainted 
Captain Gore with the polition of thefe Ihoals, and my 
apprehenlions of being driven to the Southward, he in¬ 
formed me that he fhould continue on his courfe for the 
day, as he w r as ftill in hopes of finding Admiral Byron’s 
longitude right; and therefore ordered me to fpread a few 
miles to the South. 
At noon, the weather became hazy; the latitude, by 
reckoning, was 21 0 2', and longitude 118 0 30'; and at fix, 
having got to the Weftward of the Bafhees, by Mr. Byron’s 
account, Captain Gore hauled his wind to the North Weft, 
under an eafy fail, the wind blowing very ftrong, and there 
being every appearance of a dirty boifterous night. At 
four in the morning of the 28th, we faw the Refolution, Sunday 28, 
then half a mile ahead of us, wear, and immediately per¬ 
ceived breakers clofe under our lee. At day-light, we faw 
the ifland of Prata ; and at half paft fix we wore again, and 
flood toward the flioal, and finding we could not weather 
it, bore away, and ran to leeward. As we paffed the South 
3 G 2 fide,' 
