KG A VOYAGE TO 



1779- oblige us to double-reef thetopfails. At (even, on hauling 

 v e -"- ry '_. round the Weft point of Morotoi, we opened a fmall bay, at 

 the diflance of about two leagues, with a fine fmdy beach; 

 but feeing no appearance of frefh water, we ftood on to the 

 North, in order to get to the windward of Woahoo, an 

 ifland which we had feen at our firfl vifit, in January 1778. 



At two in the afternoon, we faw the land, bearing Weft 



by North, eight leagues dHlant ; and having tacked as loon 



as it was dark, we again bore away at day-light on the 



Saturday 27. 27th j and a* half pad ten, were within a league of the 



fhore, near the middle of the North Eait fide of the ifland. 



The coaft, to the Northward, is formed of detached hills, 

 rifing perpendicularly from the fea, with ragged and broken 

 fummits ; the fides covered with wood, and the vallies be- 

 tween them of a fertile and well cultivated appearance. To 

 the Southward, we faw an extenfive bay, bounded by a low 

 point of land to the South Eaft, which was covered with 

 cocoa-nut trees ; and off it flood a high infulated rock, 

 about a mile from the fhore. The hazinefs of the weather 

 prevented our feeing diftinclly the land to the Southward 

 of the point j we could only perceive that it was high and 

 broken. 



As the wind continued to blow very frefh, we thought it 

 dangerous to entangle ourfelves with a lee -fhore; and there- 

 fore did not attempt to examine the bay, but hauled up, and 

 fleered to the Northward, in the direction of the coafl. At 

 noon, we were abrcall of the North point of the ifland, 

 about two leagues from the land, which is low and flat, and 

 has a reef flretching off it to the dilhmce of near a mile 

 and a half. The latitude, by observation, 21° 50' North, 

 longitude 202 15' Eait i the extreme parts of the ifland in 



fight, 



