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 from twelve to fifteen leagues. The ea was continually varying in its colour, but we could not obtain any oundings.

On the twenty-third of January at noon, our Latitude was 8° 49′ 51″ North, Cape Blanco bearing North 3° Eat. Our tock of water was now very much reduced, and the greater part of that which remained, was, from its having been kept in oily caks, become o naueous as to produce icknes intead of allaying thirt: I therefore made ail for the Iland of Quibo, in order to obtain a freh upply of uch a material article, on which our future health depended. Our winds ince we lot ight of Guatemala, were between the South Eat, and North Eat; and would at times vary for a few hours to the Wetern Quarter.

On the twenty-ixth we had moderate breezes from North Wet to South Wet, our Latitude was 7° 54′ North. On the twenty-eventh, being in the vicinity of the Ile Mentuoa, between Cape Dulce and Quibo, we fell in with everal permaceti whales, of which we killed four, and afterwards were o unfortunate as to loe one along-ide. The ight of thee whales prolonged our cruie until the eighth of February, in the hope of getting more of them, but we only added four to thoe we had already taken. The winds