THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
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CHAP. VI. 
Pqffage from Kerguelen's to Van Diemen's Land.—Arrival 
in Adventure Bay.—Incidents there.—Interviews with the 
Natives.—Their Perfons and Drefs defcribed.—Account of 
their Behaviour.—Vable of the Longitude , Latitude , and 
Variation. — Mr. Anderfon's Obfervations on the natural 
Productions of the Country , on the Inhabitants , and their 
Language . 
A FTER leaving Kerguelen’s Land, I fteered Eaft by 1 77 e. 
North, intending, in obedience to my inftru6tions, to i Dec _^ mber - t 
touch next at New Zealand; to recruit our water, to take 
in wood, and to make hay for the cattle. Their number, 
by this time, had been conliderably diminifhed; two young 
bulls, one of the heifers, two rams, and feveral of the goats 
having of late died, while we were employed in exploring 
this defolate coaft. 
The 31ft in the morning, being the day after we Rood Tuefday 31. 
out to fea, we had feveral obfervations of the fun and 
moon. Their refults gave the longitude 72 0 33' 36" Eaft. 
The time-keeper, in this fttuation, gave 72 0 38' 15A Thefe 
obfervations were the more ufeful, as we had not been 
able to get any for fome time before, and they now ferved 
to allure us that no material error had crept into the time¬ 
keeper. 
On the ill of January, being then in the latitude of 48° 4L 
N 2 South, 
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January. 
Wednef. i. 
