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small expence ; and I found my account in having 

 such a friend. 



In heaving in the coasting cable, it parted in the 

 middle of its length, being chaffed by the rocks. By 

 this accident we lost the other half, together with 

 the anchor, which lay in forty fathoms water, without 

 any buoy to it. The best bower cable suffered also 

 by the rocks ; by which a judgment may be formed 

 of this anchorage. At ten o'clock we got under 

 sail ; but as our decks were much encumbered with 

 fruit, &c. we kept plying under the land till they 

 were cleared. The supplies we got at this isle were 

 about one hundred and fifty pigs, twice that number 

 of fowls, as many bananoes and cocoa-nuts as we 

 could find room for, with a few yams ; and had our 

 stay been longer, we, no doubt, might have got a 

 great deal more. This, in some degree, shews the 

 fertility of the island, of which, together with the 

 neighbouring one of Middleburg, I shall now give a 

 more particular account. 



