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A VOYAGE TO 
1773. 
Auguft. 
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Monday 10. 
the hazinefs of the weather. We thought we faw fame 
people upon the coaft; and probably we were not miftaken, 
as fome elevations, like ftages, and others like huts, were 
feen at the fame place. We faw the fame things on the 
continent within Sledge Ifland, and on fome other parts of 
the coaft. 
It was calm till eight o’clock in the morning, when a 
faint breeze at North fpringing up, we weighed. But we 
had fcarcely got our fails fet, when it began to blow and 
rain very hard, with mifty weather. The wind and cur¬ 
rent, being in contrary directions, raifed fuch a fea, that it 
frequently broke into the ftiip. We had a few minutes fun- 
fhine at noon ; and from the obfervation then obtained, we 
fixed the above-mentioned latitude. 
Having plied to windward till two in the afternoon, with 
little effect, I bore up for the ill and we had feen to the Weft- 
ward, propofing to come to an anchor under it till the gale 
fhould ceafe. But on getting to this land, we found it com- 
pofed of two fmall illands, each not above three or four 
leagues in circuit; and confequently they could afford us 
little fhelter. Inftead of anchoring, therefore, we continued 
to ftretch to the Weft ward ; and, at eight o’clock, land was 
feen in that direction, extending from North North Weft, 
to Weft by South, the neareft part fix leagues diftant. I 
ftood on till ten, and then made a board to the Eaftward, in 
order to fpend the night. 
At day-break in the morning of the iotb, we refumed 
our courfe to the Weft for the land we had feen the pre¬ 
ceding evening. At eleven minutes after feven, when the 
longitude, by the time-keeper, was 189° 24", it extended 
from South, 7 2 0 Weft, to North, 41 0 Eaft. Between the South 
Weft extreme, and a point which bore Weft, two leagues dif¬ 
tant. 
