An account of several late voyages and discoveries

toa,ards the South Terra lncognita. t 31' mfablc. Mcirch 8. Latiturle South 7 d. 46 111.· Longitudc 190 d_. 47 m. ,vcather and \Vind as bcforc. Ma,-cb 14. Somh Latitudc: 1 o d. 12 1n. Longitude 1 86 d. 14 m. N. E. variation 8 d. 4 5 111. Bcfore this, for twclvc days time, thcy could get no Obfcrvation, bccaufc cvcry day it was thick> dark, and dirty \V c.uhcr, with much Rain. M,irch 20. South Latin1de 5 d. 1 s m. Longimdc 1 81 d. 16 m. N. E. variation 9 d. the ,vcathcr l!rcw hcttcr. Mtircb z 2. Somh Latitudc 5 d. 2 111. Longitudc 178 d. 3 2 111. Good \Veathcr with 81krly Tradc \Vind; thcy got fight of Lmd four Miles W. from them: lt was a number of imall lílands, about twcnty in all, n:11ucd in thc Charts Ontbong Ja·11a, which }ye about nincty Miles from the Coaft of N()'Va Guinea. March 2 5. S. Ladmdc 4 d. 35 111. I.ongimdc 17 5 d. 1 o m. variation 9 d. 3o ,n. thcy wcrc up with thc llbnds of Mm·k, all found by William Sco!ltcn and .1ohn le Mafr, being fourtcen or fifrccn in numbcr: Thc Nativcs are Savagc, and ha\•c thcir ~bck Hair tyed up likc thc Ro~ucs of Murdererr Bay in NO"Va Zealandia. MarcFi 29, thcy p.:dfccl by Green lflrmd; · the 30th by St. Jofozr lfl,md. April 1. in South LatttLJdc 4 d. 3 o m. Longitude 171 d. 2 111. variation 8 d. 45 111. thcy rcached he Coaíl: of New Guinea a~a Cape, callcd by thc paniardf Cabo St. Maria, .md went along thc 'oafr, which Hes ahout N. W. to Anthony Cacm .ffand, Garden -1·1Ijland and Fijhen lfland, to the romontory, calkd Stntis Hook, wherc the Land lis away S. and S; Eaftwardly which thcy fo,l– ·1c,\ and w~nt So\l.tltcrly, until thcy fh?tlld · d1fco-