For my part I profess myself unqualified for
offering at anything of a general scheme; but since matter of fact, and
whatever increases the history of the variation, may be of use towards
the settling or confirming the theory of it, I shall here once for all
insert a table of all the variations I observed beyond the equator in
this voyage, both in going out and returning back; and what errors there
may be in it I shall leave to be corrected by the observations of others.
(A TABLE OF VARIATIONS.)
OCCURRENCES NEAR THE CAPE; AND THE AUTHOR'S PASSING BY IT.
But to return from this digression: having fair weather and the winds
hanging southerly I jogged on to the eastward to make the Cape. On the
third of June we saw a sail to leeward of us, showing English colours. I
bore away to speak with her, and found her to be the Antelope of London,
commanded by Captain Hammond, and bound for the Bay of Bengal in the
service of the New-East-India Company. There were many passengers aboard,
going to settle there under Sir Edward Littleton, who was going chief
thither: I went aboard and was known by Sir Edward and Mr.
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