once more abreast of Cape Monday, and at five, we anchored in a bay on the east side of it. The pitch of the Cape bore N. W. diftant half a mile, and the extream points of the bay from E. to N. by W. We lay at about half a cable's length from the neareft fhore, which was a low ifland between the ship and the Cape. 1765. March. Friday 15. At fix o'clock the next morning, we weighed, and found Saturday 15. that the palm was gone from the small bower anchor. The wind was at W. N. W. with hard rain: at eight o'clock, we found a strong current fetting us to the eastward, and at noon, Cape Monday bore W. N. W. diftant two miles. The Tamar being to windward of us, fetched into the bay, and anchored again. We continued to lose ground upon every tack, and therefore, at two o'clock, anchored upon the fouthern fhore in fixteen fathom, about five miles to the eastward of Cape Monday. At three, however, I weighed again, for the boat having founded round the fhip, found the ground rocky. The wind was N. W. with hard rain, and we continued working all the rest of the day, and all night, every man on board being upon deck the whole time, and every one wet to the fkin, for the rain, or rather fhcets of water that came down, did not cease a moment. In the morning, we had again the mortification to find Sunday 17. that, notwithstanding all our labour, we had loft ground upon every tack, in confequence of the current, which continued to set with great force to the eastward. At eight o'clock, we bore away, and at nine, anchored in the fame bay from which we failed on the 15th. Monday 18. The wind continued W. and W. N. W. without any tide to the weftward, all the 18th and 19th, and the weather was exceedingly bad, with hard fqualls and heavy rain. In the Tuesday 19. mean time I had sent an officer with a boat to found a bay VOL. I. L on ( 1765. March. Wednef. zc. on the north shore, but he found no anchorage in it. On the 20th, at fix o'clock in the morning, a hard fquall coming on, the ship drove, and brought the anchor off the bank into forty fathom, but by heaving up the bower, and carrying out the kedge anchor, we got the fhip on the bank again. Thursday 21. At eight, the day following, though the wind was from W. N. W. to S. W. we weighed, and once more stood out of the bay; the current ftill fet very strongly to the eastward, but at noon, we found that we had gained about a mile and a half in a contrary direction. The wind now became variable, from S. W. to N. W. and at five in the afternoon, the ship had gained about four miles to the weftward; but not being able to find an anchoring-place, and the wind dying away, we drove again very faft to the eastward with the current. At fix, however, we anchored in forty fathom, with very good ground, in a bay about two miles to the weftward of that from which we failed in the morning. Afwell rolled in here all night, fo that our fituation was by no means defirable, and therefore, although the wind was ftill at W. S. W. we weighed and made fail about eight o'clock the next day: we had likewife inceffant rain, so that the people were continually wet, which was a great aggravation of their fatigue; yet they were ftill cheerful, and, what was yet less to be expected, ftill healthy. This day, to our great joy, we found the current fetting to the weftward, and we gained ground very fast. At fix in the evening, we anchored in the bay on the eaft fide of Cape Monday, where the Tamar lay in eighteen fathom, the pitch of the Cape bearing W. by N. diftant half a mile. We found this place very fafe, the ground being excellent, and there being room enough for two or three fhips of the line to moor. Friday 22. СНАР. CHAP. VII. The Passage from Cape Monday, in the Streight of Magellan, into the South Seas; with fome general Remarks on the Navigation of that Streight. A 1765. March T eight the next morning we weighed, and foon after we made fail opened the South Sea, from which such a fwell rolled in upon us as I have feldom feen. At four Saturday 23. o'clock in the afternoon, we anchored in a very good bay, with a deep found at the bottom, by which it may be known, about a league to the eastward of Cape Upright, in fourteen fathom. The extream point of the bay bore from N. W. to N. E. by E. and Cape Upright W. N. W. about a cable's length to the eastward of a low island which makes the bay. At three o'clock in the morning of the 24th, I sent a boat, Sunday z4. with an officer from each ship, to look for anchoring-places to the westward; but at four in the afternoon they returned without having been able to get round Cape Upright. The next morning I sent the boats again to the weftward, Monday 25. and about fix in the evening they returned, having been about four leagues, and found two anchoring-places, but neither of them were very good. We made fail, however, about eight in the forenoon of the next day, and at three, Tuesday 25. Cape Upright bore E. S. E. diftant about three leagues, a remarkable cape on the north fhore at the same time bearing N. E. diftant four or five miles. This cape, which is very lofty and fteep, lies N. N. W. by compass from Cape Upright, 1765. March. Toefday 26. at the distance of about three leagues. The fouth shore in this place had a very bad appearance, many funken rocks lying about it to a confiderable distance, upon which the sea breaks very high. At four the weather became very thick, and in lefs than half an hour we faw the fouth fhore at the distance of about a mile, but could get no anchoring-place; we therefore tacked, and ftood over to the north fhore. At half an hour after fix I made the Tamar's fignal to come under our ftern, and ordered her to keep ahead of us all night, and to fhow lights, and fire a gun every time she changed her tack. At feven, it cleared up for a moment just to show us the north fhore, bearing W. by N.; we tacked immediately, and at eight the wind fhifted from N. N. W. to W. N. W. and blew with great violence. Our fituation was now very alarming; the ftorm increased every minute, the weather was extremely thick, the rain feemed to threaten another deluge, we had a long dark night before us, we were in a narrow channel, and furrounded on every fide by rocks and breakers. We attempted to clew up the mizentopfail, but before this fervice could be done it was blown all to rags: we then brought to, with the main and fore-topfail close reefed, and upon the cap, keeping the ship's head to the fouth weft; but there being a prodigious fea, it broke over us so often that the whole deck was almost continually under water. At nine, by an accidental breaking of the fog, we saw the high Cape on the north fhore that has been juft mentioned, bearing east, at about a mile distance, but had entirely loft fight of the Tamar. At half an hour after three Wednef. 27. in the morning, we fuddenly perceived ourselves close to a high land on the fouth fhore, upon which we wore, and brought to to the northward. The gale ftill continued, if poffible, with increasing violence, and the rain poured down in torrents, fo that we were, in a manner, immerfed in wa ter, 8 ter, and expected every moment to be among the breakers. The long wifhed-for day at length broke, but the weather was still so thick that no land was to be feen, though we knew it could not be far diftant, till after fix, when we faw the fouth fhore at about the distance of two miles; and foon after, to our great fatisfaction, we faw the Tamar: at this time Cape Monday bore S. E. diftant about four miles, and the violence of the gale not abating, we bore away. About feven, both ships came to an anchor in the bay which lies to the eastward of Cape Monday, notwithstanding the fea that rolled in; for we were glad to get anchorage any where. We had now been twice within four leagues of Tuesday's Bay, at the western entrance of the Streight, and had been twice driven back ten or twelve leagues by such storms as we had now juft experienced. When the feason is fo far advanced as it was when we attempted the paffage of this Streight, it is a most difficult and dangerous undertaking, as it blows a hurricane inceffantly night and day, and the rain is as violent and conftant as the wind, with fuch fogs as often render it impoffible to discover any object at the dif tance of twice the ship's length. This day our best bower cable being quite rubbed to pieces, we cut it into junk, and bent a new one, which we rounded with old rigging eight fathom from the anchor. 1765. March. Wednesd, 27. In the afternoon of the day following, the Tamar parted Thursday 28. a new best bower cable, it being cut by the rock, and drove over to the east side of the bay, where she was brought up at a very little distance from fome rocks, against which the muft otherwise have been dafhed to pieces. At feven o'clock in the morning of the 29th, we weighed Friday 29. and found our small bower cable very much rubbed by the foul ground, fo that we were obliged to cut no less than fix and |