From this Cape we steer'd along shore SWBS until 8 oClock when the wind died away, but an hour after a fresh breeze sprung up at SW and we put the Ship right before it. The reasons of my doing this was owing to a notion which some of the officers had just started that Aeheinomouwe was not an Island founding their opinion on a suppotision that the land might extend away to the SE from between Cape Turn-again and the point we saw at noon ^{Cape Pallisser}  there being a space of about _^^{12 or} 15 Leagues which we had not seen. For my own part I had seen so far into this Sea the first time I discover'd the Strait, together with many other concurrent testimonies of its being an Island that no such supposition ever enter'd my thoughts  but being resolved to clear up every doubt that might arise on so important an object I took the oppertunity of the shifting of the winds to stand to the Eastward and accordingly steer'd NEBE all night. At 9 oClock AM we was ^were abreast of the Southermost point of  ^{Cape Pallisser} where we found the Land trend away NE towards Cape Turn-again which I reckoned to be distant from us about 26 Leagues: but as the weather was hazey so that we could not see above 4 or 5 Leagues ahead we still kept standing to the NE with a light breeze at South. A Noon Cape Pallisser bore N.72° West distant 3 Leagues, our Lat^d by account is 41°..30' South —

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