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A VOYAGE TO. 



>777- fioni che bcath. Tiic wooden niaicrials, of which it was 

 _Ii^ conipofed, fccmcd to have been brought hither, ready pre- 

 pared, to be let up occafionally ; for all the planks were 

 numbered. It was divided into two fmall rooms ; and in 

 the inner one were, a bcdftead, a table, a bench, fome old 

 hats, and other trifles, of which the natives feemed to be 

 very careful, as alio of the houfe itfelf, which had fufFered 

 no hurt from the weather, a died having been built over it. 

 There were fcuttles all around, which ferved as air holes; and, 

 perhaps, they were alfo meant to fire from, with mufquets, 

 if ever this Ihould have been found neceflary. At a lirtle 

 diftancc from the front, Hood a wooden crofs, on the tranf- 

 vcrfe part of which was cut the following infcription: 



Chrijlui viiicit. 



And, on the perpendicular part (which confirmed our con- 

 jct^ture, that the two fliips were Spanifli), 



Caroliis III. imperht. 1774. 



On the other fide of the poft, I preferved the memory of the 

 prior vifits of the Englifh, by infcribing, 



Gcorglus teriius Rex, 

 Atmis 1767, 

 1769. 1/73' 1774. ^ J 777. 



The natives pointed out to us, near the foot of the crofs, 

 the grave of the Commodore of the two fliips, who had 

 died here, while they lay in the bay, the firfl: time. His 

 name, as they pronounced it, was Oreedc. Whatever the 

 intentions of the Spaniards, in vifiting this ifland, might be, 

 they fccrned to have taken great pains to ingratiate them- 

 felves with the inhabitants; who, upon every occafion, 

 mentioned them with the flrongell cxpreflions of cftccm 

 and veneration. 



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