84 A VOYAGE TO 



'779* All profpecr. of examining more nearly the South E'afv 



v — „ — j parts of Mowee being now deftroyed, we bore away, and 

 ran along the South Eaft fide of Tahoorowa. As we were 

 fleering clofe round its Weftern extrsmity, with an inten- 

 tion of fetching the Weft fide of Mowee, we iuddenly 

 fhoaled our water, and obferved the fea breaking on fome 

 detached rocks, almoft right ahead. This obliged us to 

 keep away a league and a half, when we again fleered to 

 the Northward ; and, after paffing over a bank, with nine- 

 teen fathoms water, flood for a pafTage between Mowee and 

 an ifland called Ranai. At noon, the latitude was, by ob- 

 fervation, 20 42' Norths and. the longitude 203 22' Eaft j 

 the Southern extremity of Mowee bearing Eaft South Eaft, 

 quarter Eaft ; the Southern extremity of Ranai Weft North 

 Weft, quarter Weft ; Morotoi, North Weft and by North ; 

 and the Weftern extremity of Tahoorowa, South by Eaft, 

 feven miles diftant. Our longitude was accurately deduced, 

 from obfervations made by the time-keeper before and after 

 noon, compared with the longitude found by a great many 

 diftances of the moon from the fun and ftars, which were 

 alfo obferved the fame day. 



In the afternoon, the weather being calm, with light airs 

 from the Weft, we flood on to the North North Weil; but, 

 at fun-fet, obferving a fhoal, which appeared to flretch to 

 a confiderable diflance from the Weft point of Mowee, to- 

 ward the middle of the pafTage, and the weather being un- 

 settled, we tacked, and flood toward the South. 



The South Weft fide of this ifland, which we now had 



pafled without being able to get near the fliore, forms the 



fame diftant view with the North Eaft, as feeo on our return 



from the North, in November 1778 ; the mountainous parts, 



4 which 



