47 deg. S.
they discovered an island not known before, which Cowley named Pepy's
Island,[149] in honour of Samuel Pepys, secretary to the Duke of York
when Lord High Admiral of England, a great patron of seamen. This island
has a very good harbour, in which 1000 ships might ride at anchor, and
is a very commodious place for procuring both wood and water. It
abounded in sea-fowl, and the shore, being either rocks or sand,
promised fair for fish.
[Footnote 149: An island in the southern Atlantic, in lat. 46 deg. 34' S.
called Isle Grande, is supposed to be the discovery of Cowley.
According to Dalrymple, it is in long. 46 deg. 40' W. while the map
published along with Cook's Voyages places it in long. 35 deg. 40' W. from
Greenwich. - E.]
In January 1684 they bore away for the Straits of Magellan, and on the
28th of that month fell in with the Sebaldine or Falkland islands, in
lat. 51 deg. 25' S. Then steering S.W. by W. to the lat. of 53 deg. S. they made
the Terra del Fuego. Finding great ripplings near the Straits of Le
Maire, they resolved to go round the east end of States Land, as had
been done by Captain Sharp in 1681, who first discovered it to be an
island, naming it Albemarle island. A prodigious storm came on upon
the 14th February, which lasted between a fortnight and three weeks, and
drove them into lat.
