antly boiled in their pease and oatmeal.

The hard gales, with frequent and violent squalls, and a heavy sea soon
returned, and continued with very little intermission. The ship pitched
so much, that we were afraid she would carry away her masts, and the men
were again wet in their beds.

On the 30th, the variation, by azimuth, was 8 deg.30'E. our latitude was
32 deg.50; longitude, by account, 100 W. I began now to keep the ship to the
northward, as we had no chance of getting westing in this latitude; and
the surgeon was of opinion, that in a little time the sick would so much
increase, that we should want hands to work the ship, if we could not
get into better weather.

On the third of May, about four in the afternoon, we had an observation
of the sun and moon, by which we found our longitude to be 96 deg.26 W. the
variation by the azimuth was 5 deg.44'E. at six in the evening, and at six
the next morning, it was 5 deg.58'E, Our latitude, this day at noon, was
28 deg.20'S. At four in the afternoon, we had several observations for the
longitude, and found it to be 96 deg.21' W.; at seven in the evening, the
variation was 6 deg.40'E. by the azimuth, and the next morning at ten it
was, by amplitude, 5 deg.48'E.; at three in the afternoon, the variation, by
amplitude, was 7 deg.40'E. This day we saw a tropic bird.

At six o'clock in the morning of Friday the eighth of May, the variation
of the needle, by amplitude, was 7 deg.11' E. In the afternoon we saw
several sheer-waters and sea-swallows. At eight in the morning of the
9th, the variation, by azimuth, was 6 deg.34'E. and in the morning of the
11th, by azimuth and amplitude, it was 4 deg.40'E. Our latitude was 27 deg.20'S.
longitude, by account, 106 deg.W. This day and the next we saw several
sea-swallows, sheer-waters, and porpoises, about the ship.

On the 14th of May, the variation, by four azimuths, was 2 deg.E. About
four o'clock-in the afternoon, we saw a large flock of brown birds,
flying to the eastward, and something which had the appearance of high
land, in the same quarter. We bore away for it till sun-set, and it
still having the same appearance, we continued our course; but at two in
the morning, having run eighteen leagues without making it, we hauled
the wind, and at day-light nothing was to be seen. We had now the
satisfaction to find our ailing people mend apace. Our latitude was
24 deg.50'S. our longitude, by account, 106 deg.W. During all this tim