It was ten or twelve days before the storm had sufficiently abated to leave the vessel manageable in the hands of the captain and crew, and then the captain's reckoning was gone.

He could get his latitude correctly, but not his longitude, except by a remote approximation.

His first observation, when the sky gave an opportunity, showed us to be in latitude forty-five degrees south.
This he explained to me, and also the impracticability of now making the Cape, pointing out upon the map the Swan River Settlement in Australia as the point he should endeavor first to make.

A heavy ship, with but one mast, made but slow progress.

On the third day another storm overtook us, and we were driven before the gale at a furious rate.