THE PACIFIC OCEAN'. 
consequence of this refolution, I gave Captain Clerke or¬ 
ders how to proceed, in cafe of Separation ; appointing 
Sandwich Iflands for the firft place of rendezvous, and 
the harbour of Petropaulowfka, in Kamtfchatka, for the 
fecond. 
Soon after we were out of the harbour, the wind veered 
to the South Eaft and Eaft South Eaft, which, by the even¬ 
ing, carried us as far as the Weftern part of Oonalalhka, 
where we got the wind at South. With this we ftretched to 
the Weftward, till feven o’clock the next morning, when we Tuefday 27. 
wore, and flood to the Eaft. The wind, by this time, had 
increafed in fuch a manner as to reduce us to our three 
courfes. It blew in very heavy fqualls, attended with rain, 
hail, and fnow. 
At nine o’clock in the morning of the 28th, the ifland of Wednef. zs, 
Oonalalhka bore South Eaft, four leagues diftant. We then 
wore and flood to the Weftward. The ftrength of the gale 
was now over, and toward evening the little wind that 
blew infenfibly veered round to the Eaft, where it conti¬ 
nued but a fhort time before it got to North Eaft, and in¬ 
creafed to a very hard gale with rain. I fleered firft to the 
Southward; and as the wind inclined to the North and 
North Weft, I fleered more Wefterly. 
On the 29th, at half paft fix in the morning, we faw land Thurfday 23, 
extending from Eaft by South to South by Weft, fuppofed 
to be the ifland Amoghta. At eight, finding that we could 
not weather the ifland, as the wind had now veered to the 
Weftward, I gave over plying, and bore away for Oona- 
lafhka, with a view of going to the Northward and E aft- 
ward of that ifland, not daring to attempt a paftage to the 
South Eaft of it, in fo hard a gale of wind. At the time 
we bore away, the land extended from Eaft by South half 
South 
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