An account of several late voyages and discoveries

to the Streigh11 of MageUan; J9 Goofc, and weiglis near about eight pounds; thcy have no \Vings, but flat fiumps likc Fins : thcir oat isa downy tlumped Fcathcr ; thcy are bl:ick– ·:h, grey on thc !3acks and Heads, and wbitc aoout eirNccks and clown thcir Bellics: they are fbort · :,gcd Ii~c a G?ofc, and t~and uprig~t lih~ litt)e hildren 1n wlute Aprons, mcompames together: cy are full-necked, and headed and beakedlike Crow, only the point of their Bill rurns down a tele: thcy will bite hard, but theyarc vcry tame, d will drive in hcrds to yourBoat-íide like Shccp, d rhcre you may knock them on the head, all e after another, thcy will not make any great fie away. Hcrc are a great many Sea-Pies and cks, and Ox-Birds, and Sca-Mews, and Gulls, dwhite Sea.Pigeons , and white-brcaftcd Di– rs, and Dobchicks. 1 Oflo!Jer 13 . I wcighed, and faird out of Port t~u, ílandingSouthward. Olio!,. 16. I was in ·c. 49 J. 8 m. South. OElol,. 19. I paíícd by the pe, call'd Beachy HeaJ, by our Men, and thc di of St. lves, Lat. 50 J. ro m. The Compafs ~ variation 16 d. 31 m. Eaíterl y. The Land re ~akcsin aBay, where the Rivcr of St.Cr"ce esm. OElol 2.r. ,~e paífed by Cnpc F.1ir.weather in d. 30 m. South-Lat. Herc gocs on thc River GaUeg,oes. Oll,/J. 12. W e carne to Cape Pirgin. ,y, at the entrance ofthe Streight ofM(ftella11. Cape Pirgi11-Mary, at the Nortb-cntrance, lies the Latitude of 51 d. 2. 6 m. · And in Longitudc, from the Lh,1rd in EJJg/aud, 1 eft, 65 d. 41. m. ~ Meridfan.