46' at the north, and 49 deg.
58' at the south end.
On the 14th and 15th, the wind blowing steadily from the westward, they were obliged to stand to the southward, and were consequently hindered from seeing any more of the Kurile islands.

In the situation they then found themselves, they were almost surrounded by the supposed discoveries of former navigators.

To the southward and south-west were placed, in the French charts, a group of five islands, called the three Sisters, Zellany, and Zunasher.

They were about ten leagues, according to the same maps, to the westward of the land of De Gama; and as the Company's Land, Staten Island, and the famous land of Jesso, were also supposed to lie nearly in the same direction, this course was deemed to deserve the preference, and they hauled round to the westward, the wind having shifted to the north.

A succession of gales, however, and now and then a storm, that reduced them to their courses, drove them too much to the southward, prevented them from falling in even with the southernmost of the Kurile islands, and obliged them at last to give up all further thoughts of discovery to the north of Japan.
On the 22nd, the gale having abated, they let out the reefs of the topsails and made more sail.