A VOYAGE TO 
418 
1778. 
June. 
Monday 22. 
Tuefday 23. 
Wednef. 24. 
Xhurfday 25. 
rather than his ignorance of the dialect, may be inferred 
from this. 
The weather was cloudy and hazy, with, now and then, 
funfhine, till the afternoon of the 22d, when the wind came 
round to the South Eaft, and, as ufual, brought thick rainy 
weather. Before the fog came on, no part of the main land 
was in light,, except the volcano , and another. mountain 
clofe by it. I continued to fleer Well till feven in the 
evening, when, being apprehenfive of falling in with the 
land in thick weather,, we hauled the wind to the South¬ 
ward, till two o’clock next morning, and then bore away 
again Well. We made but little progrefs, having the wind 
variable, and but little of it, till at laft it fixed in the. Wef- 
tern board, and at five in the afternoon, having a gleam of 
lunlhine, we faw land bearing North 59 0 Well, appearing in 
hillocks like illands. 
At fix in the morning of the 24th, w T e got a fight of the 
continent; and at nine it was feen extending from North 
Eaft by Ealt, to South Well by Well, half Well; the nearelt 
part about four leagues diltant. The land to the South Welt 
proved to be illands ; the fame that had 4 been feen the pre¬ 
ceding evening. But the other was a continuation of the 
continent, without any illands to obftradt our view of it. In 
the evening, being about four leagues from the Ihore, in 
forty-two fathoms water, having little or no wind, we had 
recourfe to our hooks and lines; hut only two or three finall 
cod were caught. 
The next morning we got a breeze Ealterly; and, what 
was uncommon, with this wind, clear weather ; fo that we 
not only faw the volcano , but other mountains, both to the 
Eall and Weft of it, and all the coaft of the main land under 
them, much plainer than at any time before. It extended 
from 
