546 AVOYAGETO 



'779- At day-break on the 8tb, wc found, that the currents., 



January. ^ 



v^ — ■ ' during the night, which we fpent in plying, had carried us 



back confiderably to windward ; fo that we were now off the 

 South Weft point of the ifland. There we brought to, in 

 order to give the natives an opportunity of trading with us. 

 At noon, our obfcrved latitude was 19" i', and our longi- 

 tude, by the time-keeper, was 203" 13' ; the South Weft 

 point of the ifland bearing North, 30° Eaft ; two miles 

 diftant. 



s»turJaj'9. We fpent the night as ufual. Handing off and on. It hap- 

 pened, that four men and ten women who had come on 

 board the preceding day, ftill remained with us. As I did 

 not like the company of the latter, I flood in Hiore toward 

 noon, principally with a view to get them out of the fhip ; 

 and fome canoes coming ofF, I took that opportunity of 

 fending away our gueft&. 



We had light airs from North Weft and South Weft, and 

 Sunday lo. calms, till clcven in the morning of the loth, when the wind 

 frefhened at Weft North Weft, which, with a ftrong current 

 fetiing to the South Eaft, fo much retarded us, that, in the 

 evening, between fcven and eight o'clock, the South point 

 of the ifland bore North, 10^-° Weft, four leagues diftant. 

 The South inowy hill now bore North, i^" Eaft. 



Monday:!. At four in the morning of the nth, the wind having: 

 fixed at Weft, I ftood in for the land, in order to get fome 

 refrcfhmenis. As we drew near the fliore, the natives be- 

 gan to come off. We lay to, or ftood on and off, trading 

 with them all the day j but got a very fcanty fupply at laft. 

 Many canoes vilited us, wliofe people had not a fingle 

 thing to barter ; which convinced us, that this part of the 

 iftand muft be very poor, and that we had already got all 

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