432 cook's voyage to feb. 



plied with small turtle and fowls of a moderate size ; 

 the last were sold at the rate of ten for a Spanish 

 dollar. The natives also brought us many hog-deer, 

 and a prodigious number of monkeys, to our great 

 annoyance, as most of our sailors provided themselves 

 with one, if not two of these troublesome animals. 



As we should have met with some difficulty in 

 finding the watering-place, if Mr. Lannyon had not 

 been with us, it may be worth while, for the use of 

 future navigators, to describe its situation more par- 

 ticularly. The peaked hill on the island bears from 

 it north-west by north ; a remarkable tree growing 

 upon a coral reef, and quite detached from the neigh- 

 bouring shrubs, stands just to the northward ; and, 

 close by it, there is a small plot of reedy grass, the 

 only piece of the kind that can be seen hereabout. 

 These marks will show the place where the pool 

 empties itself into the sea ; but the water here is 

 generally salt as well as that which is in the pool. 

 The casks must, therefore, be rilled about fifty yards 

 higher up ; where, in dry seasons, the fresh water 

 that comes down from the hills is lost among the 

 leaves, and must be searched for by clearing them 

 away. 



The latitude of the anchoring- > ^ ©p/ -, ^, o 



place at Prince's Island was, ) 



Longitude, ... 105 17 30 E. 



Dip of the south pole of the > ~ .. ~ ~ 

 v ji > 28 15 



magnetic needle, - - ) 



Variation of the compass, - 54 W. 



Mean of the thermometer, 83 Oj 



From the time of our entering the Straits of Banca, 

 we began to experience the powerful effects of this 

 pestilential climate. Two of our people fell danger- 

 ously ill of malignant putrid fevers ; which, however, 

 we prevented from spreading, by putting the patients 

 apart from the rest, in the most airy births. Many 



