THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
485 
being in latitude 12 0 48' South, longitude 15 0 40' Weft, the 
magnetic needle was found to have no dip. 
On the 12th of June, we palled the equator for the fourth 
time during this voyage, in longitude 26° 16" Weft. We 
now began to perceive the effedts of a current fetting North 
by Eaft, half a knot an hour. It continued in this direc¬ 
tion till the middle of July, when it began to fet a little to 
the Southward of the Weft. 
On the 12th of Auguft, we made the Weftern coaft of Ire¬ 
land, and after a fruitlefs attempt to get into Port Galway, 
from whence it was Captain Gore’s intention to have fent 
the journals and maps of our voyage to London, we were 
obliged, by ftrong Southerly winds, to fteer to the North¬ 
ward. Our next objedt was to put into Lough Swilly; but 
the wind continuing in the fame quarter, we ftood on to 
the Northward of Lewis Ifland ; and on the 22d of Auguft, 
at eleven in the morning, both fhips came to an anchor at 
Stromnefs. From hence, I was difpatched by Captain Gore, 
to acquaint the Board of Admiralty with our arrival; and 
on the 4th day of Odtober the fhips arrived fafe at the 
Nore, after an abfence of four years, two months, and 
twenty-two days. 
O11 quitting the Difcovery at Stromnefs, I had the fatis- 
fadtion of leaving the whole crew in perfedt health; and at 
the lame time, the number of convalefcents on board the 
Refolution, did not exceed two or three, of whom only one 
was incapable of fervice. In the courfe of our voyage, the 
Refolution loft but five men by ficknefs, three of whom 
were in a precarious ftate of health at our departure from 
England; the Difcovery did not lofe a man. An unremit¬ 
ting attention to the regulations eftablifhed by Captain 
Cook, with which the world is already acquainted, may be 
juftly 
1780. 
May. 
C ™ v" 1.^ 
June. 
Monday iz. 
July. 
Saturday 15, 
Auguft. 
Saturday 12. 
Tuefday 22, 
O&ober. 
Wednef. 4, 
