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A VOYAGE TO 
April. to t ^ ie ^ T ° rt ^ 1 North Weft; and, in the forenoon, a friow 
u—y—v was feen bearing down to us, which proved to be an En¬ 
glish Eaft India packet, that had left Table Bay three days 
before, and was cruifing with orders for the China fleet, 
and other India fhips. She told us, that, about three weeks 
before, Monf. Trongoller’s fquadron, conflfting of lix fhips, 
had failed from the Cape, and was gone to cruife off St. 
Helena, for our Eaft India fleet. This intelligence made 
us conjecture, that the five fail we had feen Handing to the 
Eaft ward muft have been the French fquadron, who, in 
that cafe, had given over their cruife, and were probably 
proceeding to the Mauritius. Having informed the packet 
of our conjectures, and alfo of the time we underftood the 
China fhips were to fail from Canton, we left them, and 
preceded toward the Cape. 
In the evening of the ioth, the Gunner’s Quoin bore 
North by Eaft, and Falfe Cape Eaft North Eaft; but the 
wind being at South Weft, and variable, prevented our get- 
Wednef. 12. ting into Falfe Bay, till the evening of the 12th, when we 
dropt anchor abreaft of Simon’s Bay. We found a ftrong 
current fetting to the Weft ward, round the Cape, which, 
for fome time, we could but juft Item, with a breeze that 
Thurfday i 3 would have carried us four knots an hour. The next morn¬ 
ing, we flood into Simon’s Bay; and at eight came to an¬ 
chor, and moored a cable each way; the heft bower to the 
Eaft South Eaft, and ftnall bower Weft North Weft; the 
Sopth Eaft point of the bay bearing South by Eaft, Table 
Mountain North Eaft half North ; diftant from the neareft 
fhore one-third of a mile. We found lying here, the 
Naffau and Southampton Eaft-Indiamen, waiting for convoy 
for Europe. The Refolution faluted the fort with eleven 
guns, and the fame number was returned. 
Mr. 
