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Toward night the wind hauled to the southward , and headed us off our course a little , and blew a tremendous gale ; but this we did not mind , as there was no rain nor snow , and we were already under close sail . In about a week , they had cut enough to last us a year , and the third mate , with myself and three others , were sent over in a large , schooner-rigged , open launch , which we had hired of the mission , to take in the wood , and bring it to the ship . In our first attempt to double the Cape , when we came up to the latitude of it , we were nearly seventeen hundred miles to the westward , but , in running for the straits of Magellan , we stood so far to the eastward , that we made our second attempt at a distance of not more than four or five hundred miles ; and we had great hopes , by this means , to run clear of the ice ; thinking that the easterly gales , which had prevailed for a long time , would have driven it to the westward . The captain was on deck nearly the whole night , and kept the cook in the galley , with a roaring fire , to make coffee for him , which he took every few hours , and once or twice gave a little to his officers ; but not a drop of anything was there for the crew . There was , however , too much to do to allow time to think ; for the gale of yesterday , and the heavy seas we met with a few days before , while we had yet ten degrees more southing to make , had convinced the captain that we had something before us which was not to be trifled with , and orders were given to send down the long topgallant masts .