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1776. At nine o’clock in the morning of the 13th, we arrived 
* before Port Pray a, in the iiland of St. Jago, where we faw 
Tuefday 13, two Dutch Eaft Tndia fhips, and a fmall brigantine at an¬ 
chor. As the Difcovery was not there, and we had ex¬ 
pended but little water in our pafiage from Teneriffe, I did 
not think proper to go in, but flood to the Southward. 
Some altitudes of the Sun were now taken, to afcertain the 
true time. The longitude by the watch, deduced there¬ 
from, was 23 0 48' Weft; the little ifland in the bay bore 
Weft North Weft, diftant near three miles, which will make 
its longitude 23 0 5T. The fame watch, on my late voyage, 
made the longitude to be 23 0 30' Weft; and we obferved 
the latitude to be 14 0 53' 30" North. 
Wednef. 14. The day after we left the Cape de Verde Iflands, we loft 
the North Eaft trade wind; but did not get that which 
Friday 30. blows from the South Eaft till the 30th, when we were in 
the latitude of 2 0 North, and in the twenty-fifth degree of 
Weft longitude. 
During this interval *, the wind was moftly in the South 
Weft quarter. Sometimes it blew frefh, and in fqualls; but 
for the moft part a gentle breeze. The calms were few, 
and of fliort duration. Between the latitude of 12 0 and of 
7 0 North, the weather was generally dark and gloomy, 
with frequent rains, which enabled us to fave as much wa¬ 
ter as filled moft of our empty calks. 
Thefe rains, and the clofe fultry weather accompanying 
* On the 18th, I funk a bucket with a thermometer feventy fathoms below the fur- 
face of the fea, where it remained two minutes; and it took three minutes more to haul 
it up. The mercury in the thermometer was at 66, which before, in the air, flood at 
78, and in the furface of the fea at 79. The water which came up in the bucket con¬ 
tained, by Mr. Cavendifh’s table, 7 part fait; and that at the furface of the fea -g, 4. 
As this laft was taken up after a fmart fliower of rain, it might be lighter on that ac¬ 
count. Captain Cook's log-book. 
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