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 On the twenty-third, Latitude 26° 0′, the weather moderated o much as to afford an opportunity of examining the leak, when we found the lower cheek of the head looened, and the wah-boards of the tarboard cheek, entirely wahed away; the oakum worked out of the wooden ends, o as to admit an arm-full to be tuffed in by hand, and no one was yet convinced but that the plank had tarted from the tem. We made our utmot exertions to get every thing aft, in order to raie the leak above water: and here, to add to our diappointment, it became neceary, for want of food to utain them, to kill our mall flock of pigs which had been reerved to regale us on our homeward paage round Cape Horn.

By the twenty-eventh we had returned again to the Northward as far as 18° South, when we finihed caulking and leading over the leak, the only method we had of ecuring it, having neither pitch, tar, or roin on board, for marine tores being all expended. Our bread was not fit to eat, and our other proviions o hort, that owing to its bad qualities we could carce exit on it: thus ituated, we propoed, as our lat trial in thee eas, to continue on to the Northward till we made the land, in hopes to fall in