A VOYAGE TO 
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July. 
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Friday i8* 
Saturday 19. 
Sunday 20. 
Monday 21. 
by North, diftant three or four leagues. The wind was 
now at Eaft, and blew a frefh gale. With it I flood to the 
South, till half an hour pall fix o’clock the next morning, 
when a fudden fquall, from the fame diredtion, took our 
fhip aback; and, before the fails could be trimmed, on the 
other tack, the main-fail and the top-gallant fails were 
much torn. 
The wind kept between the South Weft, and South Eaft, 
on the 19th and 20th; afterward, it veered to the Eaft, 
North Eaft, and North. The night between the 20th and 
21 ft, an eclipfe of the moon was obferved as follows ; be¬ 
ing then in the latitude of 22 0 57 1' South, 
Apparent Time, A. M. 
H. M. S. 
Beginning, by Mr. King, at o 32 50! 
Mr. Bligh, at o 33 25 >Mean long. 186 0 57! 
Myfelf, at o 33 35 J 
End, by Mr. King, at 1 44 5,6! 
Mr. Bligh, at 1 44 6 > 
Myfelf, at 1 44 56J 
Mean long. 186 0 28!'. 
Time keep. 186 0 581k 
The latitude and longitude are thole of the fhip, at 8 h 56"' 
A. M. being the time when the fun’s altitude was taken for 
finding the apparent time. At the beginning of the eclipfe, 
the moon was in the zenith; fo that it was found moft con¬ 
venient to make ufe of the fextants ; and to make the ob- 
fervations *by the reflected image, which was brought down 
to a convenient altitude. The fame was done at the end; 
except by Mr. King, who obferved with a night telefcope. 
Although the greateft difference between our feveral ob~ 
fervations, is no more than fifty feconds, it, neverthelefs, 
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