Sea Travel in the South

It appears that sea navigation in the South has historically been a difficult endeavor. While ship logs from the southern seas are difficult to find online, prior investigation in to this subject has produced information of interest:

Zetetic Cosmogony
On p.30 of Zetetic Cosmogony by Thomas Winship we read:

Alexander Gleason
On [https://archive.org/details/AlexGleasonIsTheBibleFromHeaven/page/n396 pg. 396] of Alexander Gleason's book ''Is the Bible from Heaven? Is the Earth a Globe?'', its author relays the following: