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27 February 1770 Tuesday 27th A very hard gale at SWBW and WSW with heavy squalls attended with showers of rain and a large hollow sea without the least intermission the whole of this 24 hours. We continued under our Courses from noon untill 7 PM when we handed the Main sail and lay too under the fore sail with her head to the southward - Lat. at Noon 46°.54' - Longd made from Cape Saunders 1°..24' East.
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