The wind kept veering round from the south by the west to N. N. W., with which we stretched north till noon the next day, when, being in the latitude of 29° 22ʹ, we tacked and stretched to the westward. The wind soon increased to a very hard gale, attended with rain, and blew in such heavy squalls, as to split the most of our sails. This weather continued till the morning of the 25th, when the wind became more moderate, and veered to N. W. and W. N. W., with which we steered and stretched to N. E., being, at that time, in the latitude of 29° 51ʹ, longitude 136° 28ʹ west. In the afternoon, the sky cleared up, and the weather became fair and settled. We now met the first tropic bird we had seen in this sea. On the 26th, in the afternoon, being in the latitude of 28° 44ʹ, we had several observations of the sun and moon, which gave the longitude 135° 30ʹ west. My reckoning at the same time was 135° 27ʹ, and I had no occasion to correct it since I left the land. We continued to stretch to the north, with light breezes from the westward, till noon the next day, when we were stopped by a calm; our latitude at this time being 27° 53ʹ, longitude 135° 17ʹ west. In the evening, the calm was succeeded by a breeze from the N. and N. W., with which we plied to the north. On the 29th, I sent on board the Adventure to enquire into the state of her crew, having heard that they were sickly, and this I now found was but too true; her cook was dead, and about twenty of her best men were down in the scurvy and flux. At this time, _we_ had only three men on the sick list, and only one of them attacked with the scurvy; several more, however, began to show symptoms of it, and were accordingly put upon the wort, marmalade of carrots, rob of lemons and oranges.