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my own observation, I Imve great reason to think these 

 boats will do, it would make four hundred leagues 

 in ten days, which I compute to be the distance of* 

 Boscawen and Keppel's Islands, discovered by Cap- 

 tain Wallis, westward of Ulietea, and therefore think 

 it very probable that they were the islands he had 

 visited. The farthest island that he knew any thing 

 of to the southward, he said, lay at the distance of 

 about two days' sail from Oteroah, and was called 

 MouTOU ; but he said that his father had told him 

 there were islands to the southward of that : upon 

 the whole, I was determined to stand southward in 

 search of a continent, but to spend no time in search- 

 ing for islands, if we did not happen to fall in with 

 them during our course. 



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