This present exception was the more welcome from our being just on the Line, where we should otherwise have suffered much from the heat.

The thermometer stood at only 81 degrees in the shade, and 97 degrees in the sun.
Today at noon we crossed the Line, and were once more in the northern hemisphere.

A Tahitian sucking-pig was killed and consumed in honour of our successful passage, and our native hemisphere toasted in real hock.
On the 4th of June, under 8 degrees North latitude, we beheld again, for the first time, the lovely polar star.
On the 17th of June, we passed so near to Saypan, one of the largest of the Ladrone Islands, that we could make out the mountains very distinctly.

The Ladrone and Marianne Islands are situated between the 13 and 21 degrees North latitude, and the 145 and 146 degrees East longitude.
On the 1st of July we again saw land: this time it was the coast of Lucovia, or Luzon, the largest of the Philippines, and lying between the 18 and 19 degrees North latitude, and the 125 and 119 degrees East longitude.

The port of Manilla is situated on the southern coast of the island.
In the course of the day we passed the island of Babuan, and several detached rocks, rising, colossus like, from the sea.