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at thie Pratas on the
following day.
at 4 Rm. The Love could not be
very:
will steam against
ist the Easterly breeze
And lie current, and she did not
arrive.
no the neighbourhood
of the
reep
until the corning of the 25th when
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She hove to under its lee, with the Island-
bearing. ( by computation from
observations) & NE. 12. Mitos.
Jaght
light
8 N°8. 12 Milos. At day
b. V. 8.
on the 24" the Steaued E. 4. &. For
the Island, but not
seeing
it up
to 10
Alw. they get sights and found Himsɛloes
to the Eastward of the reef. At Noon-
the Pratas Island bore to... Wt about
• 20 miles, consequcuetly they
set by
had been
current half way round the
toop, in the tooth of a Fresh Easterly.
reef,
breeze the joined Company,
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In the evening
at b bblock having cxpendect nearly
all her fuck.
Striet praess should be issued
to parties procceding to the Pratas against destroying the brushwood,
or creeping plants, with which the
Flaud is not Covered, as at the
Cape of Good Hope I have known
huge
mounds of land disappear
in the course of a single gate of
wind, after they had been denuded of their brushy courring.
of
to this euäre
the neighbouring estates. The
Bape Gooriumait have bately issued
orders forbidding the cutting of Brushwood on the Saud Flats near