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On the third, feeing no birds, they conjectured that they had palTed between fome iflands -, and the men earneftly entreated the admiral ID fteer either to the one fide or the other, in qucft of the land ihcy imagined they had left: but he re - futed to comply with their intreaties, being unwilling to lofe the favourable wind that tarried him to the wcftward, which he accounted his fureft courfe, and would not take any rtcp to leflen the reputation of his undertaking, which muft have fuHlTcd in the opinion of his people, had he changed his courfe from that which he had all along aflurcd them would terminaie in the accompHftimcnt of their wilhes.

A new collection of voyages, discoveries and travels : containing whatever is worthy of notice, in Europe, Asia, Africa and America 1767