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[Page 192]

To Cape Horn

in the Evening blew strong at night a hard gale ship brought too under a mainsail during the course of this my Bureau was overset & most of the books were about the Cabbin floor so that with the noise of the ship working the books &c. running about and the strokes our cotts or swinging beds gave against the top & sides of the Cabbin we spent a very disagreable night we this morn expected to have made Falklands Islands where we intended to put in for a small time so the missing of them which we much fear was a great disapointment to me as I fear I shall not now have a single oppertunity of observing the produce of this part of the world.

7. Blew strong yet the ship still Laying too now for the first time saw some of the Birds calld Penguins by the southern navigators they seem much of the size & not unlike alca pica but are easily known by streaks upon their faces & their remarkably shrill cry different from any sea bird I am acquainted with we saw also several seals but much smaller than those which I have seen in Newfoundland & black they generaly appeard in lively action leaping out of the water like porpoises so much
 

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