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 vegetable, nor found any water that was ufficiently palatable to drink. He run four miles along the coat, at three quarters of a mile from the hore, without getting any oundings; at that length, found bottom at ten fathoms. This was near the ditance we had fallen to leeward, from the time the boat had left us. I had ounded, everal times with the deep ea lead, at four or five miles from hore, and got no bottom, with one hundred and fifty fathoms of line. We tood off and on during the night, the wind being between the South and South Eat. At break of day, we dicovered that the current had taken a different direction, and had et us coniderably to the Northward and Wetward, and we could not fetch our ituation of the preceding night. At noon, we were by obervation, in latitude 37′ South.

I now thought it prudent to come to an anchor, in order to refreh the people, and to determine the ituation of the ile. As we drew in with the hore, I kept the deep ea lead going, and at the ditance, of about five or ix miles, we obtained oundings, from thirty-eight, to thirty-ix fathoms, which continued to diminih, till we were within a mile of the hore, when we got into nineteen fathoms water, fine and bottom, and near the center of the ile; in which depth we came to anchor.