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72 Teneriffe E. 28° N. and the eatern point of the iland of Canary E. 24° S.

We then teered, about one o'clock in the afternoon, S.E.S. with a view to pas between the Cape Verd ilands and the main land. We had a pretty freh eat breeze.

About ix in the evening the iland Gomere bore N. 38° E.

On the 26th, the Eperance told us her longitude, after having enquired to know ours. The great difference between the longitude of our reckoning, and that taken by obervation, threw us into ome uncertainty, which induced us to bear down two rhomb-lines tarboard from our former S.E.S. coure; but ubequent obervations determined us to reume our firt direction. The weather was very fine, and we had nothing to fear from approaching the African coat: beides, we knew from our oundings that it was many leagues ditant.

On the following morning we were out of ight of land, which convinced us that the obervations taken on board the Eperance were erroneous.

We croed the Tropic of Cancer about one o'clock in the afternoon, in 20° E. long. The barometer indicated 28 inches 2 4-5ths lines.

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