too ſhallow water for us to follow her. On the following morning, being June 5.the fifth of June, we got a ſteady wind from the South Weſt, but as we diſtanced the ſhore and Southerd our Latitude, it hauled to the South Eaſt, encreaſing daily in ſtrength, with an heavy ſea. The weather was ſometimes ſqually, with frequent ſhowers of rain; and when we got into Latitude 17° South, and Longitude 90° Weſt, the wind hauled well to the Eaſt.
19.On the 19th of June, when we were in Latitude 24°, and Longitude 90° 30′, an heavy gale of wind blew from the Northward. From the time of our leaving Cape Blanco the ſhip had made water, which now began to gain on us: and in the afternoon of the twenty-firſt, in a violent ſquall of wind and rain, our fair weather top-ſails and courſes were blown to pieces, and having neither canvas or twine to repair them, we were under the neceſſity of bending our beſt and only ſuit.
At night, being in the ſuppoſed ſituation of Saint Felix and Saint Ambroſe Iſles by different navigators, we hove to till day-light, and then ſcudded till night and again hove to, as we did, on the ſucceeding night, at which time the weather moderated. Having now run down both to the