We Were This 19th Day In Latitude 21 Degrees 42
Minutes.
The 20th we were in latitude 19 degrees 37 minutes, and
kept close on a wind to get sight of the land again, but could not
yet see it.
We had very fair weather, and though we were so far
from the land as to be out of sight of it, yet we had the sea and
land breezes. In the night we had the land breeze at south-south-
east, a small gentle gale, which in the morning about sun-rising
would shift about gradually (and withal increasing in strength) till
about noon we should have it at east-south-east, which is the true
sea breeze here. Then it would blow a brisk gale so that we could
scarce carry our top-sails double-reefed; and it would continue thus
till three in the afternoon, when it would decrease again. The
weather was fair all the while, not a cloud to be seen, but very
hazy, especially nigh the horizon. We sounded several times this
20th day, and at first had no ground, but had afterwards from fifty-
two to forty-five fathom, coarse brown sand, mixed with small brown
and white stones, with dints besides in the tallow.
The 21st day also we had small land breezes in the night, and sea
breezes in the day, and as we saw some sea-snakes every day, so this
day we saw a great many, of two different sorts or shapes.
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