Happily the wind took a direction that blew our navigators from the coast; and though, on the 27th, the tempest rose to a perfect hurricane, and the Resolution sprang a leak, no material damage ensued.
In the prosecution of the voyage to the north, and back again to the Sandwich Islands, the facts that occurred were chiefly of a nautical kind.

Minutely to record these is not the purpose of the present work, and indeed would extend it to an unreasonable length.
From this long and important navigation, I can only select some few incidents, that may be accommodated to the taste and expectations of the generality of readers.
One thing it is not improper here to observe; which is, that the captain, in his passage along the coast of America, kept at a distance from that coast, whenever the wind blew strongly upon it, and sailed on till he could approach it again with safety.

Hence several great gaps were left unexplored, and particularly between the latitudes of 50 deg.

and 55 deg..

The exact situation, for instance, of the supposed Straits of Anian was not ascertained.