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112. Island of 3 Kings
which made the seamen conclude that some small current along shore must be the reason why we could never get any thing by our short trips.
20. Some hopes of a fair wind in the morn but they soon left us and it began to blow hard with violent claps of thunder, on which we again stood out to sea.
21. Wind not quite so bad as yesterday but a great swell from the West hinderd the ship much.
22. Swell as yesterday but the wind has come more to the Southward so that we cannot come in with the land at all.
23. Little wind more favourable than yesterday so that at night the land was seen from the Mast head.24. Land in sight, an Island or rather several small ones most probably 3 Kings, so that it was conjecturd that we had Passd the Cape which had so long troubled us. Calm most of the Day: myself in a boat shooting in which I had good success, killing cheifly several Gannets or Solan Geese so like Europaean ones that they are hardly distinguishable from them. As it was the humour of the ship to keep Christmas in the old fashiond way it was
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