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Jan.] lat was dicovered to be behind one of the knees. Upon lightening the veel, we found that one of the tree-nails had been forgotten, and the place where it ought to have been inerted meared over with tar. Having bolted it properly, we were enabled to keep the hip dry.

The albatroes of the Cape of Good Hope, which began to appear in large flocks, hewed us that we were approaching to the outhern extremity of Africa. We decried the land about eight o'clock in the morning of the 10th of January. Table Bay was then about 20,000 toies ditant from us.

The currents, which had made us fall off o much from our coure whilt we were in the track of the regular winds, having fortunately taken an oppoite direction where we met with the variable ones; what we had lot to the wet was very nearly made up to us by what we gained to the eat, as appeared when we made the land of the Cape of Good Hope. It is evident that the tendency of the eas to preerve the level, ome few irregularities proceeding from the variable winds excepted, ought to induce mariners, in the parts where thee winds prevail, to bear down to the eat in proportion as the general winds determine the currents to the wet.

We had another indication of our being near the