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The Novels and Miscellaneous Works (7); New Voyage Round the World
The Novels and Miscellaneous Works New Voyage Round the World - 7 Author:Daniel Defoe Volume: 7 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1840 Original Publisher: Printed by D. A. Talboys for T. Tegg, London Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial a... more »ccess to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: We set sail, I say, from hence in seven days, and, finding the coast lie fairly on our starboard side, kept the land on board all the way, distance about three leagues; and it held us thus, about a hundred and twenty leagues due east, when on a sudden we lost sight of the land; whether it broke off, or whether it only drew off further south, we could not tell. We went on two or three days more, our course south-east, when we made land again; but found it only to be two small islands, lying south and by east, distance nine leagues. We stood on to them, and two of our boats went on shore, but found nothing for our purpose ; no inhabitants, nor any living creatures, except sea fowls, and some large snakes; neither was there any fresh water. So we called that land Cape Dismal. The same evening we stood away full south, to see if we could find out the continuance of the former land ; but as we found no land, so a great sea coming from the south we concluded we should find no land that way. And, varying our course easterly, we ran with a fair fresh gale at north-west and by west, for seven days more ; in all which time, we saw nothing but the open sea every way; and making an observation, found we had passed the southern tropic; and that we were in the latitude of 26 13', after which we continued our course still southerly for several days more, until we found, by another observation, that we were in 32 20'. ' This evening we made land over our starboard bow, distance six leagues, and stood away south and by east: but the wind slac...« less