8 cook's SECOND VOYAGE JUNE, 



depending, I believe, in a great measure, on our 

 distance from the islands which form it. 



As we drew near the south end of Rotterdam, or 

 Anamocka, we were met by a number of canoes, 

 laden with fruit and roots ; but, as I did not shorten 

 sail, we had but little traffic with them. The people 

 in one canoe enquired for me by name ; a proof that 

 these people have an intercourse with those of Am- 

 sterdam. They importuned us much to go towards 

 their coast, letting us know, as we understood them, 

 that we might anchor there. This was on the S. W. 

 side of the island, where the coast seemed to be shel- 

 tered from the South and S. E. winds ; but as the day 

 was far spent, I could not attempt to go in there, as 

 it would have been necessary to have sent first a boat 

 in to examine it. I therefore stood for the north side 

 of the island, where we anchored about three-fourths 

 of a mile from shore ; the extremes of it bearing S. 

 88° East to S. W. a cove with a sandy beach at the 

 bottom of it S. 50° East. 



