We
Therefore Continued To Steer To The East, Only Lying-To A Few Hours In The
Night, And In The Morning Resumed Our Course Again, Four Miles North And
South From Each Other; The Hazy Weather Not Permitting Us To Spread
Farther.
We passed two or three small pieces of rock weed, and saw two or
three birds known by the name of egg-birds; but saw no other signs of land.
At noon we observed in latitude 48 deg.
36' S., longitude 59 deg. 35' E. As we
could only see a few miles farther to the south, and as it was not
impossible that there might be land not far off in that direction, I gave
orders to steer S. 1/2 E., and made the signal for the Adventure to follow,
she being by this movement thrown a-stern: The weather continuing hazy till
half an hour past six o'clock in the evening, when it cleared up so as to
enable us to see about five leagues round us.
Being now in the latitude of 49 deg. 13' S., without having the least signs of
land, I wore and stood again to the eastward, and soon after spoke with
Captain Furneaux. He told me that he thought the land was to the N.W. of
us,; as he had, at one time, observed the sea to be smooth when the wind
blew in that direction. Athough this was not conformable to the remarks
we had made on the sea, I resolved to clear up the point, if the wind
would admit of my getting to the west in any reasonable time.
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