A Voyage of Discovery, Into the South Sea and Beering's Straits, for the Purpose of Exploring a North-East Passage, Vol. 2 of 3

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Excerpt from A Voyage of Discovery, Into the South Sea and Beering's Straits, for the Purpose of Exploring a North-East Passage, Vol. 2 of 3: Undertaken in the Years 1815-1818, at the Expense of His Highness the Chancellor of the Empire, Count Romanzoff, in the Ship Rurick, Under the Command of the Lieutenant in the Russian Imperial Navy, Otto Von KotzebueThe 30th, latitude 9° longitude 187° 9 We had a fresh wind from-n., and extremely high waves from n.w. The current had carried us Since yesterday 27 miles to W. We saw more birds than usual.The 31st, latitude 9° 49' 57 longitude, accord ing to the ship's reckoning, deduced from the chronometers, 188° During the whole day we had gloomy weather with drizzling rain, which is not usual in the tropics the wind varied from N. To N. N.e. And n.n.vv This changeable weather gave me great hopes that land was near, I how ever lookedfor it in vain. At three o'clock in the afternoon, we were exactly N 15 miles distant from our course In the preceding year, and had now sailed, for the second time, through the chain of the Mulgrave islands, without having seen them. I now directed my course as much north as the wind permitted, to sail to Kutusof's islands, which I have promised to examine more closely, and we tacked during the night under few sails, that we might neither run aground, nor pass the islands.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.