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 Government to whalers ailing round Cape Horn, without clearing out again, for which I received the owners intructions: but the collector at Cowes informed me, that it could not be allowed.

On the econd day of January, in the afternoon, the weather promiing to be fair, and the wind inclining to the North, I dropped down to Yarmouth Roads. We had a thick fog and Southerly wind all night, and during the next day and following night, there was a heavy gale to the South, with drizzling rain. At noon on the fourth, the wind hifted to the Northward and brought clear weather, with which we ailed.