Streight of Magellan to the Islands of Disappointment
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gestures to prevent their landing, I therefore fired a nine pound shot from the ship over their heads, upon which they ran into the woods with great precipitation. At ten o’clock the boats returned, but could get no soundings close in with the surf, which broke very high upon the shore. The middle of this cluster of islands lies in latitude 14° 10’S., longitude 144° 52’W.; the variation of the compass was here 4° 30’E.
At half an hour after ten, we bore away and made sail to the westward, finding it impossible to procure at these islands any refreshment for our sick, whose situation was becoming more deplorable every hour, and I therefore called them the ISLANDS OF DISAPPOINTMENT.
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© Derived from Volume I of the London 1773 Edition: National Library of Australia call no. FERG 7243, page 96, 2004
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