1768. March. Mond. 28. Sund. 17. On Monday the 28th, we croffed the equator, and got again into north latitude. On Wednesday, the 13th of April, we passed a April. great quantity of gulp weed; and on the 17th, we Wednef. 13. paffed a deal more. great On the 19th, we saw two Tuesday 19. flocks of birds, and obferving the water to be difcoloured, we thought the ground might be reached, but, upon founding, could find no bottom. Sund. 24. May. At five o'clock in the morning of Sunday the 24th, we faw the peak of the Ifland of Pico bearing N. N. E. at the distance of about eighteen leagues. We found, by obfervation, that Fyal lies in latitude 38° 20′ N. longitude 28° 30′ W. from London. No incident worth recording happened till about Wednef. 11. noon on the 11th of May, when, being in latitude 48° 44' N. longitude 70 16' W. we faw a fhip in chace of a floop, at which the fired feveral guns. We bore away, and at three, fired a gun at the chace, and brought her to; the ship to windward, being near the chace, immediately fent a boat on board her, and foon after, Captain Hammond, of his Majefty's floop the Savage, came on board of me, and told me that the veffel he had chaced, when he first faw her, was in company with an Irish wherry, and that as foon as they discovered him to be a man of war they took different ways; the wherry hauled the wind, and the other veffel bore away. That he at first hauled the wind, and stood after the wherry, but finding that he gained no ground, he bore away after the other vessel, which probably would also have escaped, if I had not flopped her, for that he gained very little ground in the chace. She appeared to be laden with tea, brandy, and other goods, from Rofcoe in France; and though the was fleering a fouth-west course, pretended to be bound to Bergen in Norway. She belonged to Liverpool, was called the Jenny, and commanded by one Robert Chriftian. Her brandy and tea were in fmall kegs and bags; and all appearances being strongly against her, I detained her, in order to be fent to England. At At half an hour after five, on the 13th, we faw the Iflands of Scilly; on the 19th, I landed at Hastings in Suffex; and at four, the next morning, the ship anchored fafely in the Downs, it being just 637 days fince her weighing anchor in Plymouth Sound. To this narrative, I have only to add, that the object of the voyage being difcovery, it was my conftant practice, during the whole time of my navigating those parts of the fea which are not perfectly known, to lie to every night, and make fail only in the day, that nothing might escape me. 1768. May. VOL I. R TABLE A TAB OF THE L E LATITUDES and the LONGITUDES Weft of LONDON, with the Variation of the Needle, at feveral Ports, and Situations at Sea, from Obfervations made on board his Majesty's Ship the DOLPHIN and her Nautical Reckoning during the Voyage which she made round the World in the Years 1766, 1767, 1768, under the Command of Captain SAMUEL WALLIS. |