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in too bad a condition for the former we were in too good a one for this 6 months provision was much more than enough to carry us to any Port in the East Indies & the over plus was not to be thrown away in a Sea Where so few navigators had been before us  the third therefore was unanimously agreed to which was to stand immediately to the Westward; fall in with the Coast of New Holland as soon as possible, & after following that to the northward as far as seemd proper; to attempt to fall in with the Lands seen by Quiros in 1606.  in doing this, although we hopd to make discoveries more interesting to trade at least, than any we had yet made; we were obligd intirely to give up our first grand object, the Southern Continent  this for my own part I confess I could not do without much regret. - that a Southern Continent realy exists, I firmly beleive; but if ask'd why I beleive so, I confess my reasons are weak; yet I have a preposession in favour of the fact which I find it dificult to account for. Ice in large bodies has been seen off Cape Horn now & then; Sharp saw it in    & Monsr Frezier, in his return from the Coast of Chili, in the month of March 1714: he also mentions, that it has been seen by other French Ships, in

 

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