14' of west longitude.

A great many porpoises came round the vessel.

On the 25th arose a tempest which lasted till the 28th.

The wind then shifted to the E.S.E.and carried us two hundred and twenty-four miles on our course in twenty-four hours.

Then we had several days of contrary winds; on the 8th of February it hauled to the S.E., and on the 11th we saw the peak of a mountain covered with snow, which the first mate, who was familiar with these seas, told me was the summit of _Mona-Roah_, a high mountain on the island of _Ohehy_, one of those which the circumnavigator Cook named the Sandwich Isles, and where he met his death in 1779.