nine at night
Captain Blokes sent me on board the _ Delight _ in our Yall , and I found them in a very disorderly Pickle , with all their Clothes a-drying : the Ship and Rigging covered with 'em from the Deck to the Maintop . They got six of their Guns into the Hold , to make the Ship lively . Aboard the _ Marquis _ died , on the 8th , John Veale , a Landsman , having lain ill a Fortnight , and had a Swelling in the Legs ever since he left the Island of Grande . At nine at night we buried him ; and this was the first we had lost by Sickness since we left England . Until the 15th , cloudy Weather with Squalls of Rain , and fresh Gales at S.W. . We now accounted ourselves round Cape Horn , and so in the South Seas . The French ships that first came to trade in these seas were wont to come through the Straits of Magellan ; but Experience has taught 'em since , that this is the best Passage to go round the Horn , where they have Sea Room enow , without being crushed and crowded as at a Ranelagh Masquerade ; and the Straits are in many places very narrow , with strong Tides and no Anchor Ground .