Transcription

Remarks on Passing Cape Horn [in left margin]

Passage we should not have been in those Seas, besides the fatiguing of our People the damage we must have done to our Anchor Cables, Sails & Rigging some of which have sufferd in our Passage round Cape Horn.
From what I have said it will appear that I am no advocate for the Straits of Magellan, but it should be expected that I should say something of Strait Le Maire through which we passed & this is the more incumbant on me as it was by choice & contrary to the Advice given by Mr Walter the ingenious Author of Lord Ansons Voyage who advises all Ships not to go through this Strait but to go to the Eastw.d of Staten Land & likewise to stand to the Southward as far as 61 or 62º South before any Endeavour is made to get to the Westward, with respect to the passing of Strait Le Maire or going round Staten Land I look upon of little Consequence & either one or the other to be pursued according to Circumstances for if you happen to fall in with the land to the Westward of the Strait & the Winds favourable for going through it certainly must be a piece of folly to loose time in going round Staten Land for by paying a little Attention to the Directions I have already given no ill Consequences can attend; but on the Contrary if you should fall in with the land to the Eastward of the Strait or the wind should prove Boisterous, or unfavourable in any of these Cases the going to the Eastward of Staten Land is the most Advisable, & next as to the running into the Latitude of 61 or 62º South before any
 

Week Days
&
Year

Days
Winds Courses Distance 
Sail'd in
Miles
Lat.de in
South
Long.de in W.t
from
Greenwich
Bearings &tc.
at Noon
February 1769
Tuesday
14.th Westerly
South
SW 32 49.6 91.12  
Wednesday 15 SSW
SW
WbN
N46W.t 56 48.27 92.5  
Thursday 16 NW
West &
South
N74W.t 97 48.0 94.25  
Friday 17 SSW NWbW½ W.t 132 46.48 97.17  
Saturday 18 SWbW N32.30W.t 140 44.50 99.7  
Sunday 19 SWbW
to
WbS
NNW¾W.t 103 43.21 100.21  
Monday 20 Westerly S.º 65ºW.t 58 43.46 101.34  
Tuesday 21 NW S.º 62W.t 115 44.39 103.54  
Wednesday 22 NW.terly S.º 86W.t 91 44.46 106.1  
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