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Updated: April 30, 2025
This was the sort of sea to find out for Leslie the weak points in his structure, if it had any; and for the next half-hour while "carrying-on," and driving his craft full tilt against the sea under the heavy pressure of her enormous unreefed sails he watched his craft carefully and anxiously, ready at the first sign of weakness to up-helm and run back to the shelter of the lagoon.
On the night of the 5th, he got Cape Virgin to bear N., but as there was a fresh breeze, and the night was gloomy, threatening a storm, he kept off and on till day-break, when having unreefed his top-sails, he run to W.N.W. He continued plying to windward, under courses and top-sails, for the whole of the 6th, during which he discovered Cape Possession on the continent coast, and also got sight of Terra del Fuego.
During one hour, when we must have made eleven knots, the wind blew strong, and was fresh again after that; so that we set the foresail unreefed and let the great mainsail go not many minutes later.
With a quick eye the change was observed by the crew of the Pandora, and the advantage understood. Instead, therefore, of yielding obedience to the signal from the cutter, all hands rushed quickly aloft the topsails were unreefed to their fullest spread topgallants and royals were unfurled, and even the studding-sails bent, till the whole rigging of the barque was covered with canvas.
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