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To Cape Horn

Decr 1768

or the lord knows what would have become of us

26. Blows fresh today a vast many birds are about the ship cheifly procellarias, all that we shot last week & one more who is quite Black without spot or speck that can be seen as he flies Towards even many beds of seaweed came past the ship which the seamen call rockweed but none near enough to the ship for us to catch them tho we were constantly prepard

27. Blows strong this evning at night came to under a balancd mizzen till day light when it grows more moderate The water has been discoulerd all day 50 fathom all this day I have smelt a singular smell from windward tho the people in the ship did not take notice of it it was like rotten seaweed & at some times very strong.

during the whole of this gale we had many procellarias about the ship at some times immense numbers who seemd perfectly

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