Aug 3, 1792 Home Providence Log Aug 5, 1792
Revised Aug 26 2021
1 pm: Very Fresh Gales & Squally Weather with thick Rain like a Fog, clearing
for a few minutes at intervals.
At 1 hour..40′ North & NE Cape in one at S88E North Island or Amargura N13°W 10 Leagues
West part of Mayorga S15°E
5 pm: The weather cleared a little and we saw the South Island (called Late) bearing SbE½E 18 Miles
7 pm: Very heavy Squalls close Reefed the Top Sail & handed the Main
8 pm: Ditto Weather with sharp lightning, made the Signal & Tacked Ship.
9 pm: Fires all Night to Air Ship and dry Clothes.
12 mid: Constant Rain
2 am: Made the Signal and Tacked
4 am: Weather cleared up. Saw Island Late SSE
7 am: Out 2nd Reefs & Set Studding Sails. Served a Hot Breakfast as usual
8 am: Fresh Breezes and Cloudy Late SE½E and at ¼ past 9 SEbE½E 44 Miles
10 am: Got every thing up from below, washed & dryed Ship with Fires
12 noon: Fresh Trade & Fair Weather with a very clear Horizon
Plants doing very well
Assistant in Company
Nothing could exceed the unfavorable Weather after Noon. It came on so very thick and Squally that it was like steering in a Fog. I therefore informed Lieut. Portlock, by hailing him, that after the close of the Day I should keep on a Wind for the Night. I had the good luck however to get a sight of the two Islands last discovered which enabled me to determine their situations tolerably exact, and the new Day bringing us better Weather, I had a good sight again of the South Island, and excellent Altitudes of the Sun to determine my Longitude by my Time Keepers.
How far my discription of these Islands will agree with the Journal of Mr. Maurelle I cannot say, but I see no reason to doubt of their being the same lands. The relative possitions and Latitudes agree very nearly, and the longitude is out of the question. He has been exact in what is unpardonable for a Navigator to neglect, I mean his latitude. I shall not therefore (altho he seems to have been a poor unhappy wanderer about this Sea, and not unlike many of our modern English navigators about this part of the Globe) take away the names he has given to these Islands, by supplanting them with others which a new Discovery would have led me to have done.
The Island of Mayorga is the land I first saw. The Mountainous Island is the Island Late, and the northermost Island is Amargura.
Close under the Table Hill is certainly Maurelle's Port Refuge.
| The North part of Mayorga by me lies in | 18°..34½′S | 186°..09′E | By Maurelle | 18°..33′S | 183°..33′E |
| Port Refuge | 18..38½ | 186..04 | 18..38 | 183..52 | |
| Island Late | 18..50 | 185..31 | 18..46 | 183..11 | |
| Island Amargura | 17..58½ | 185..46 | 17..59 | 183..21 |
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