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A VOYAGE TO 



CHAP. VIII. 



Pro<rrefs Northward, after leaving Oonalafika, — The 

 Ijlands Oonella ajid Acoctan. — Ooneemak. — Shallownefs 

 of the Water along the Coaft. — Briflol Bay. — Round 

 J (land. — Calm Point. — Cafe Newenhatn. — Lieutenant 

 Williamf on lands ^ and his Report. — BriJlolBay, a?idits 

 Extent. — 'Tl:}e Ships obliged to return, on account of 

 Shoals. — Natives co?ne off to the Ships. — Death of Mr, 

 Andcrfon ; his CharaSier ; and If and named after 

 him. — Poi?it Rodney. — Sledge If and, and Remarks on 

 landing there — Kings If and — Cape Prince of TVales^ 

 the Wefern Extre^ne of America, — Courfe Wefiward, 

 — Anchor in a Bay on the Coaf of Afa. 



lu[^' T T AVING put to fea with a light breeze, at South South 



Thurfday 2. 



Eall, we lleered to tlie North, meeting with nothing 

 to obflru(5l us in this courle. For, as I obferved before, the 

 Ifland of Oonalathka, on the one fide, trended South Weft; 

 and, on the other, no land was to be {izzw in a direction more 

 Northerly than North Eaft; the whole of whicli land was a 

 continuation of the fame group of iflands which we had 

 fallen in with on the 25th of June. That which lies before 

 Samganoodha, and forms the Norih liaft fide of t!ie paflTige 

 through which we came, is called OonsUa, and is about 

 feven leagues in circumference. Another ifland, to the 

 North Eafl. of if, is called Acootan, which is conlidcrably 

 larger than Oonella, and hath in it fomc very high moun- 

 I tains, 



