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 -  It was entirely firm and solid, without any internal cavity,
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It Was Entirely Firm And Solid, Without Any Internal Cavity, And Had Pierced Through Three Very Stout Planks, Grazing One

Of the ribs of the ship, and stuck at least a foot deep in the wood, leaving about as much

On the outside, up to the place where it broke off.[104]

[Footnote 104: This must have been a Narvai, or Narwhal, the Monodon Monoceros, Licorne, or Unicornu Marinum, of naturalists, called likewise the Unicorn Fish, or Sea Unicorn. - E.]

On the 25th of October, when no person knew whereabouts they were except Schouten, the company was informed that the design of the voyage was to endeavour to discover a new southern passage into the South Sea; and the people appeared well pleased, expecting to discover some new golden country to make amends for all their trouble and danger. The 26th they were in lat. 6 deg. 25' S. and continued their course mostly to the south all the rest of that month, till they were in lat 10 deg. 30' S. The 1st September they had the sun at noon to the north; and in the afternoon of the 3d they had sight of the isle of Ascension, in 20 deg. S. otherwise called the island of Martin Vaz, where the compass was observed to vary 12 deg. to the east of north. The 21st, in lat. 38 deg. S. the compass varied 17 deg. in the same eastern direction. The 6th December, they got sight of the mainland of South America, appearing rather flat, and of a white colour, and quickly after fell in with the north head-land of Port Desire, anchoring that night in ten fathoms water with the ebb-tide, within a league and a half of the shore.

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