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CHAP. IX. 



ROUTE FROM NEW ZEALAND TO OTAHEITE, WITH AN AC- 

 COUNT OF SOME LOW ISLANDS, SUPPOSED TO BE THE 

 SAME THAT WERE SEEN BY M. DE BOUGAINVILLE. 



On the 7th of June, at four in the morning, the 

 wind being more favourable, we unmoored, and at 

 seven weighed and put to sea, with the Adventure 

 in company. We had no sooner got out of the sound, 

 than we found the wind at south ; so that we had to 

 ply through the Straits. About noon the tide of ebb 

 setting out in our favour, made our boards ad- 

 vantageous ; so that, at five o'clock in the evening, 

 Cape Palliser, on the Island of Eahei-nomauwe, bore 

 S. S. E. ^ S. and Cape Koamaroo, or the S. E. point of 

 the sound, N. by W. f W. presently after it fell calm, 

 and the tide of flood now making against us, carried 

 us, at a great rate, back to the north. A little 

 before high-water, the calm was succeeded by a 

 breeze from the north, which soon increased to a 

 brisk gale. This, together with the ebb, carried 

 us, by eight o'clock the next morning, quite 

 through the Strait. Cape Palliser, at this time, 

 bore E. N. E. and at noon N. by W. distant seven 

 leagues. 



This day at noon, when we attended the winding 

 up of the watches, the fusee of Mr. Arnold's would 

 not turn round ; so that, after several unsuccessful 

 trials, we were obliged to let it go down. 



After getting clear of the Straits, I directed my 

 course S. E. by E. having a gentle gale, but variable, 

 between the north and west. The late S. E. winds 

 having caused a swell from the same quarter, which 

 did not go down for some days, we had little hopes 

 of meeting with land in that direction. We, however, 

 continued to steer to the S. E. and on the 11th. 



