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»777- one hour, than we could set bv diftillation in a month, I laid 



Aurii. ° ' 



«— .^v — -• afide the flill, as a thing attended v;ith more trouble than 

 profir. 



The heat, which had been great for about a month, 

 became now much more difagreeable in this clofe rainy 

 weather ; and, from the moifture attending it, threatened 

 foon to be noxious ; as the fhips could not be kept dry, nor 

 the ilcuttles open, for the fea. However, it is remarkable 

 enough, that though the only refrefliment we had received 

 fmce leaving the Cape of Good Hope, was that at New Zea- 

 land ; there was not, as yet, a fingle perfon, on board, fick, 

 from the conflant ufe of fait food, or viciflitude of climate. 



Thurfday24. In the night between the 24th and 25th we pafled Savage 

 Friday 25. jflaud, which I had difcovered in 1774*; and on the 28th, 



Monday 28. y- i r- 1 • n 1 



at ten o'clock in the morning, we got fight or the illands 

 which lie to the Eallward of Annamooka, bearing North by 

 Weft, about four or five leagues diftant. I fleered to the 

 South of thefe iflands, and then hauled iip for Annamooka ; 

 which, at four in the afternoon, bore North Weft by North, 

 Fallafajeea South Weft by South, and Komango North by 

 Weft, diftant about five miles. The v/eather being fqually, 

 with rain, I anchored, at the approach of night, in fifteen 

 fathoms deep water, over a bottom of coral-fand, and 

 fhells ; Komango bearing North Weft, about two leagues 

 diilant. 



* For an account of the difcovery of Savage Iflaml ; a defcription of it ; and the 

 behaviour of its inhabitants, on Captain Cook's landing, fee his Voyage, Vol. ii. 

 -p. 3, to p. 7. 



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