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foot out of our way, or causing any other delay than 

 picking them up. 



Having got the tents and every other article on 

 board on the 28th, we only now waited for a wind to 

 carry us out of the harbour, and through New Pas- 

 sage, the way I proposed to go to sea. Every thing 

 being removed from the shore, I set fire to the top- 

 wood, &c, in order to dry a piece of the ground we 

 had occupied, which, next morning, I dug up, and 

 sowed with several sorts of garden seeds. The soil 

 was such as did not promise success to the planter ; 

 it was, however, the best we could find. At two 

 o'clock in the afternoon, we weighed with a light 

 breeze, at S. W., and stood up the bay for the new 

 passage. Soon after we had got through, between 

 the east end of Indian Island and the west end of 

 Long Island, it fell calm, which obliged us to anchor 

 in forty-three fathom water, under the north side of 

 the latter island. 



In the morning of the 30th we weighed again with 

 a light breeze at west, which, together with all our 

 boats a-head towing, was hardly sufficient to stem 

 the current ; for, after struggling till six o'clock in 

 the evening, and not getting more than Hve miles 

 from our last anchoring place, we anchored under 

 the north side of Long Island, not more than one 

 hundred yards from the shore, to which we fastened 

 a hawser. 



At day-light next morning, May 1st, we got again 

 under sail, and attempted to work to windward, 

 having a light breeze down the bay. At first we 

 gained ground ; but at last the breeze died away ; 

 when we soon lost more than we had got, and were 

 obliged to bear up for a cove on the north side of 

 Long Island, where we anchored in nineteen fathom 

 water, a muddy bottom ; in this cove we found two 

 huts not long since inhabited ; and near them two 

 very large fire-places or ovens, such as they have in 

 the Society Isles. In this cove we were detained 



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