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] It was, however, too late for us to put into this anchorage before night. As the weather was fair, it was reolved to cat anchor in Tempet-bay, in a bottom of grey and, at the depth of ten fathoms. We had been ixty-four days on our paage from the Cape to this place. Mot of the navigators who have made it before us, have performed it in fifty or at mot fifty-five days. It is to be oberved, that they have generally teered outhward as oon as poible, in order to get into the track of the weterly winds. This route is omewhat longer than that which we took, but at ea it is not always by taking the hortet road that one arrives the oonet at one's place of detination. Navigators ought to be well acquainted with the ordinary coures of the winds, that they may be able to get into thoe which are the mot favourable. The night continued very fine, though the air was charged with a great deal of moiture. We were heltered from the N.W. and W.N.W. winds, though we now and then experienced a few light blats.

We caught a great quantity of fihes with our lines. They were of a great variety of different kinds: the mot numerous were thoe of the pecies gadus.

The variation of the magnetic needle, oberved when we paed under the meridian of Ile de France,