ple, and of Captain Marion and his fellow sufferers, but from what I and my whole crew have seen with our eyes. Nevertheless I think them a good sort of people, at least I have always found good treatment amongst them.
After leaving New Zealand, I steered directly for Cape Horn: I put in at Terra del Fuego and Staten Land, where we met with little worthy of note. On my passage from the last mentioned land to the Cape of Good Hope, I fell in with an isle, of about 70 leagues in circuit, and situated between the latitude of 54 and 55°, which was wholly covered with snow and ice. Again, in the latitude of 59°, I met with more land, the southern extent of which I did not find; so that I was not able to determine, whether it was composed of isles, or was part of a large land. Some parts of it shewed a surface composed of lofty mountains, whose summits were lost in the clouds, and every where covered with snow, down to the very wash of the sea; notwithstanding this was the very height of summer, or rather towards the autumn, when the weather is warmest in the southern seas. We also met with a great deal of ice in the sea, both isles and drift ice. After leaving this land, I sought in vain for Cape Circumcision; and on the 22nd of March arrived at the Cape of Good Hope, in great want both of stores and provisions, fresh provisions especially, which we had not tasted for a long time, except it was seafowl, seals, &c.
I left the Cape on the 27th of April, touched at St. Helena, Ascension, and Fayal, and arrived at Spithead the 30th of July, having only lost four men from the time of my leaving England: two were drowned, one was killed by a fall, and one
