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on drawing near, we met with very irregular foundings, i7'7- 



n 1 r April. 



varying, every calt, ten or twelve fathoms. This obliged t- -.--^ 

 me to give up the defign, and to go to the Southward of all; 

 which carried us to leeward, and made it neceiTary to fpend 

 the night under fail. It was very dark ; and we had the 

 wind, from every direcSlion, accompanied with heavy (howers 

 of rain. So that, at day-light the next morning, we found Wednef. 30. 

 ourfelves much farther off than we had been the evening 

 before ; and the little wind that now blew, was right in our 

 teeth. 



We continued to ply, all day, to very little purpofe; and, 

 in the evening, anchored in thirty-nine fathoms water j 

 the bottom coral rocks, and broken fhells ; the Weft point 

 of Annamooka bearing Eaft North Eaft, four miles diftant. 

 Tooboulangee and Taipa kept their promife, and brought 

 off to me fome hogs. Several others were alfo procured by 

 bartering, from different canoes that followed us ; and as 

 much fruit as we could well manage. It was remarkable, 

 that, during the whole day, our vifiters from the iflands 

 would hardly part with any of their commodities to any body 

 but mc. Captain Gierke did not get above one or two hogs. 



At four o'clock next morning, I ordered a boat to be May. 

 hoifted out, and fent the Maftcr to found the South Weft '^^"''"'^'y '^ 

 fide of Annamooka ; where there appeared to be a harbour, 

 formed by the ifland on the North Eaft, and by fmall iflots, 

 and flioals, to the South Weft and South Eaft. In the mean 

 time, the fhips were got under fail, and wrought up to the 

 ifland. 



When the Mafter returned, he reported, that he had found- 

 ed between Great and Little Annamooka, where he found 

 ten and twelve fathoms depth of water, the bottom coral 



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