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A VOYAGE TO 
1778. The Difcovery being at fome diftance aftern, I brought 
Lto, till Hie came up, and then bore away, fteering North 
Weft ; in which direction I fuppofed the coaft to he. The 
wind was at South Eaft, blew very hard, and in fqualls, 
with thick hazy weather. At half paft one in the after¬ 
noon, it blew a perfect hurricane; fo that I judged it high¬ 
ly dangerous to run any longer before it, and, therefore, 
brought the fliips to, with their heads to the Southward, 
under the forefails and mizen-ftayfails. At this time, the 
Refolution fprung a leak, which, at firft, alarmed us not a 
little. It was found to be under the ftarboard buttock; 
where, from the bread-room, we could both hear and fee 
the water rulh in; and, as we then thought, two feet under 
water. But in this we were happily miftaken ; for it was 
afterward found to be even with the water-line, if not above 
it, when the fhip was upright. It was no fooner difcovered, 
tlian the ftlh-room was found to be full of water, and the 
calks in it afloat; but this was, in a great meafure, owing 
to the water not finding its way to the pumps through the 
coals that lay in the bottom of the room. For after the 
water was baled out, which employed us till midnight, and 
had found its way directly from the leak to the pumps, it 
appeared that one pump kept it under, which gave us no 
fmall fatisfadtion. In the evening, the wind veered to the 
South, and its fury, in fome degree, ceafed. On this, we 
fet the main-fail, and two topfails clofe-reefed, and ftretched 
to the Weftward. But at eleven o’clock, the gale again in- 
creafed, and obliged us to take in the topfails, till five o’clock 
Tuefday 28. the next morning, w'hen the ftorm began to abate ; fo that 
we could bear to fet them again. 
The weather now began to clear up; and, being able to fee 
feveral leagues round us, I fleered more to the Northward. 
At 
