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that could possibly be procurd we have pledgd ourselves my Lord to your Lordship & this Nation to undertake what no navigator before us has ever even suggested to be practicable we are to attempt at Least to pass round the whole globe in those very Latitudes the only passing into of which in order to get round one Cape had almost destroyd the whole squadron Commanded by Commodore Ld Anson we have done more we have undertaken to approach at least as near the Southern pole as we possibly can & how near that may be no man living or who Ever has livd can give the least guess
Shall I then my Lord who have engagd to leave all that can make life agreable in my own countrey & throw on one side the pleasures to be reapd from three of the best years of my life merely to compass this undertaking