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 Eat, to Wet by South. I now made a tretch off, bent my bet bower, untowed the other anchors, tacked and tood in, and came to in ten fathoms water. The North Eat point bearing North, 45° Eat; the highet mount North, 33° 45′ Wet; the bottom of the bay North, 56° 15′ Wet; the Eatern point forming the entrance to the Cove, Wet; and the South point, Wet by South. In this ituation we lay two days and a night, all hands on hore during the day, except one boat's crew: on the thethe [sic] third day, the current began to run to the North Eat, at the rate of two and an half, or three miles an hour, from which caue, we lay uneay at ingle anchor. I was unwilling to moor with my bowers, as our windlas was in uch a tate as to render the heaving up an anchor a matter of great toil and delay; nor had we any boat to carry out a kedge ufficiently heavy to teady the hip.

Although the weather did not preent the mot promiing appearance, and the winds Eaterly, yet, as the current run to the windward, I entertained hopes of a long continuance of fine weather, which I always found at the Sandwich Iles, when the Northerly current ran there. I was, however, mitaken; for in the night of the firt