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Week Days
& Year
M.º
Days
Winds Courses Dist.ce
Saild[sic]
in M.s
Latitude
in South
Long.de in W.t
from 
Greenwich
Bearings &tc
at Noon
February
Saturday
1769
4th
Westerly No13ºW.t 48 57º.45' 82º.16  
Sunday 5 WSW
WbN &
SWbW
North 59 56.46 82.16  
Monday 6 SWbW
to
WbN
N¼E.t 86 55.20 82.23  
Tuesday 7 West
NbW
WbS
N.º20ºW.t 46 54.40 82.54  
Wednesday 8 Westerly
SbW
N14.43W 58 53.36 83.19  
Thursday 9 Southerly N55ºW.t 130 52.22 86.17  
Friday 10 Westerly N22W.t 67 51.16 86.37  
Saturday 11 Varible
Southerly
N54W.t 36 50.55 87.24  
Sunday 12 SWbS.º No48ºW.t 113 49.41 89.36  
Monday 13 W.t Northerly N75ºW.t 35 49º.32 90º.37  

From the foregoing observations it will appear that we are now advanced about 12º to the Westward of the Strait of Magellan & 3½º to the Northward of it, having been 33 days in Doubling Cape Horn or the Land of Terra del Fuego, & arriving into the Degree of Latitude & Longitude we are now in, & without being brought once under our close Reefd[sic] Topsails since we left Strait Le Maire a Circumstance that perhaps never hapned[happened] before to any ship in those Seas so much derided for Hard gales of Wind in so much that the doubling of Cape Horn is thought by some to be a mighty thing & others

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