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December.
Sunday 22.
Wednef. 25.
Sunday sg.
Tuefday 31
1794.
January.
Tuefday 7,
the other lying (ouih, two miles from its fouth point, which is fituatcd
in latitude 28" 51', longitude 241" 38'. The wind at n. w. continued to
blow a picafant gale with fair weather until midnight; but at this time it
veered round, and fettled in the north-ea(l trade. Our diftance was now
about 75 leagues from the coart, and it is probable the north-weft; winds
do not extend far beyond that limit, as the wind that fucceeded continued
without calms, or other interruptions, between the n.e. and e.n.e.,
blowing a (Kady, gentle, and pleafant gale.
On the 2J(1, in latitude 23* 23', longitude 23.1° 37', the variation of
the compafs was 7' eaftwardly ; here we had thirty hours calm, after
which we had a gentle breeze from the N. e.; this as we proceeded was
attended full by cloudy and gloomy weather, and afterwards with rain,
and fuddcn gufts or flurries of wind. On the '25th, a tropic bird was
feen, and a common gull that appeared to be much fatigued, and in-
clined to alight on board.
This very unpleafant weather, fimilar to that which we had experi-
enced in this neighbourhood about the conclufion of laft January, ft;ill
continued; and on the 2gth, in latitude 19° 1', longitude 231" 58', the
wind, after veering to the s. e., became light, and, like the weather, was
very unfettled. We were now paffing the fpot afligncd to the los Majos
ifles, at the dift-ance of a few miles onlv to th(; fouthward of our former
track; but we perceived no one circumftance that indicated the vicinity
of land.
On the 31ft, the wind feemcd to be fixed in the northern quarter, but
the atmofpherc was Rill very unpleafant, and the gloomy weather was
now accompanied by much rain. On the 3d of January, in latitude i8*
31' longitude 213° 32', a very heavy fwell rolled from theN.w., and
the wind in that diredion was light, with alternate calms, attended by
foggy or dark hazy weather until the 6t]i, when in latitude ig° ig', lon-
gitude 208" 48', we had a few hours of fair and pleafant weather; this was
again fucceeded by the fame gloomy aimofphere that we had xperiencecl
during the greater part of this paffage, and the wind cont. aed to be
very variable between the n.vv. and s.s.w. In the afternoon of the
following day the weather was more favorable, and the wind from the
northward
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