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it; the high hill bearing south-west by south, and 

 the peak on Cracatoa north by east. We had light 

 airs and calms till six next morning, when we 

 weighed and made sail, having, in our endeavours 

 to heave the anchor out of the ground, twice broken 

 the old messenger, and afterward a new one, cut 

 out of our best hawser. This, however, was entirely 

 owing to the wretched state of our cordage, as the 

 strain was not very considerable, and we had besides 

 assisted the cable in coming in, by clapping the cat- 

 tackle on it. The wind continuing fair, at noon we 

 came to an anchor off the south-east end of Prince's 

 Island, in twenty-six fathoms, over a sandy bottom ; 

 the east end of the island bearing north north-east, 

 the southernmost point in sight south-west by south, 

 the high peak north-west half west, distant from the 

 nearest shore half a mile. 



As soon as we had come to anchor, Lieutenant 

 Lannyon, who had been here before with Captain 

 Cook, in the year 1770, was sent along with the 

 master, to look for the watering-place. The brook 

 from which, according to the best of his recollection, 

 the Endeavour had been supplied, was found quite 

 salt. Further inland, they saw a dry bed, where the 

 water seemed to have lodged in rainy seasons ; and, 

 about a cable's length below, another run, supplied 

 from an extensive pool, the bottom of which, as well 

 as the surface, was covered with dead leaves. This, 

 though a little brackish, being much preferable to 

 the other, we began watering here early the next 

 morning, and finished the same day. 



The natives, who came to us soon after we 

 anchored, brought a plentiful supply of large fowls, 

 and some turtles ; but the last were for the most part 

 very small. In the course of the night we had heavy 

 rain ; and on the 14th, at day-light, we saw the 

 Resolution to the northward, standing toward the 

 island, and at two in the afternoon, she dropt 



