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A VOYAGE TO 
1780. 
February. 
V- — -i 
The latitude of the anchoring-place at 
Prince’s Illand was - 6° 36' 15" South, 
Longitude - - - - - 105 17 30 Eaft. 
Dip of the South pole of the magnetic 
needle - - - - - 28 15 o 
Variation of the compafs - o 54 o Weft, 
Mean of the thermometer - - 83 f 
From the time of our entering the Strait of Banca, we 
began to experience the powerful effects of this peftilential 
climate. Two of our people fell dangeroufly ill of ma¬ 
lignant putrid fevers ; which however we prevented from 
fpreading, by putting the patients apart from the reft, in 
the moft airy births. Many were attacked with teazing 
coughs ; others complained of violent pains in the head; 
and even the healthieft among us felt a fenfation of fuffo- 
cating heat, attended by an infufferable languor, and a total 
lofs of appetite. But though our fttuation was for a time 
thus uneafy and alarming, we had at laft the Angular fatis- 
fadtion of efcaping from thefe fatal feas, without the lofs 
of a Angle life; a circumftance which was probably owing 
in part to the vigorous health of the crews, when we Arft 
arrived here, as well as to the ftridt attention, now become 
habitual in our men, to the falutary regulations introduced 
amongft us by Captain Cook. 
On our leaving Prince’s Ifland, and during the whole time 
of our run from thence to the Cape of Good Hope, the crew 
of the Refolution w T as in a much more Ackly ftate than that 
of the Difcovery. For though many of us continued, for 
fome time, complaining of the effedts of the noxious cli¬ 
mate we had left, yet happily we all recovered from them. 
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