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1777- Next day, our various operations on fhore began. Some 



vj ^ were employed in making hay for the cattle ; others in fill- 



aturayj. ^^_^^ ^^^ Water calks at the neighbouring ftagnant pool; 



and a third parry in cutting wood. The greateil plenty of 

 this lafl article being abreail of the fliips, and in a fituation 

 the mod convenient for getting it on board, it was natm'al 

 to make choice of this. But the trees here, which our 

 people erroneouHy fuppofed to be manchineel, but were a 

 fpecies of pepper, called faitanoo by the natives, yielded a 

 juice of a milky colour, of fo corroiive a nature, that it 

 raifed blifters on the fkin, and injured the eyes of our work- 

 men. They were, therefore, obliged to deliit at this place, 

 and remove to the cove, in which our guard was iiationed, 

 and where we embarked our water. Other wood, more 

 fuitable to our purpofes, was there furniflied to us by the 

 natives. Thefe were not the only employments we were 

 engaged in, for MefTrs. King and Bayly began, this day, to 

 obferve equal altitudes of the fun, in order to get the rate 

 of the time-keepers. In the evening, before the natives 

 retired from our poft, Taipa harangued them for fome time. 

 We could only guefs at the fubje(51: ; and judged, that he 

 was inftrudlin? them how to beiiave toward us, and encou- 

 raging them to bring the produce of the ifland to market. 

 We experienced the good eiTe;5ls of his eloquence, in 

 the plentiful fupply of provilions which, nest day, we 

 received. 



Sunday 4. Nothing worth notice happened on the 4th and 5th, ex- 



°" ^^ ^' cept that, on the former of thefe days, the Difcovery loft 



her fmall bower anchor, the cable being cut in two by the 



rocks. This misfortune, made it neceflary to examine the 



cables of the Refolution, which were found to be unhurt. 



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