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to wcigli and join us. This was done about noon ; and wc 

 immediately Hood away to the Northward, in profecution 

 of our voyage. Thus, after fpending more time about theic 

 iilands, than was necefTary to have anfwered all our pur- 

 pofes, we were obliged to leave them before we had com- 

 pleted our water, and got from them fuch a quantity of re- 

 frefliments as their inhabitants were both able and willing 

 to have fupplied us with. But, as it was, our fiiip pro- 

 cured from them provifions, fufEcient for three weeks at 

 leaft; and Captain Gierke, more fortunate than us, got, of 

 their vegetable produtftions, a fupply that lafted his people 

 upward of two months. Tlie obfervations I was enabled to 

 make, combined with thofe of Mr. Anderfon, who was a 

 very ufeful affiftant on all fuch occafions, will furnifh ma- 

 terials for the next chapter. 



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