i82 AVOYAGETO 



'777- quence of this report the fliips weighed anchor, and, after 



v- — , 1 two or three trips, came to again in twenty fathoms water, 



over a bottom of fine dark, fand, before a fmall illand that 

 lies at the entrance of the lagoon ; and on each iide of which 

 there is a channel leading into it; but only fit for boats. The 

 water in the /ngoon itfelf is all very (hallow. 



Friday 26, On the 26th, in the morning, I ordered Captain Gierke to 



fend a boat, with an officer, to the South Eaft part of the la- 

 goon, to look for turtle ; and Mr. King and I went each in 

 a boat to tlie North Eaft part. I intended to have gone to 

 the moft Eafterly extremity ; but the wind blew too frefli to 

 allow it, and obliged us to land more to leeward, on a fandy 

 flat, where we caught one turtle; the only one that we faw 

 in the lagoon. We walked, or rather waded, through the 

 water, to an ifland; wliere finding nothing but a few birds, 

 I left it, and proceeded to the land that bounds the fea to the 

 North Weft, leaving Mr. King to obfervc the fun's meridian 

 altitude. I found this land to be even more barren than the 

 iftand 1 had been upon ; but walking over to the fea-coaft, I 

 faw five turtles clofc to the fliore. One of thefe we caught, 

 and the reft made their efcape. Not feeing any more, I re- 

 turned on board, as did Mr. King foon after, without having 

 fecn one turtle. We, however, did not dcfpair of getting 

 a fupply ; for fomc of Captain Gierke's oflicers, who had 

 been afhorc on the land to the Southward of the channel 

 leading into the A/^ooh, had been more fortunate, and caught 

 fevcral there. 



Sniuuiiy;. ^^ ^^'^^ momlng of the iyih, the pinnace and cutter, 

 under the command of i\lr. King, were fent to the South 

 Eaft part of the illand, wiihin the lagoon ; and the fmall cut- 

 ter to the Northward, where I had been the day before ; 

 4 both 



