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fuch a fupply of refrefhments as would help to fhorten his *779- 



1 l J * November, 



ftay in Macao. Thefe iflands were vifited by Dampier, * — v— — * 

 who gives a very favourable account, both of the civility 

 of the inhabitants, and of the plenty of hogs and vege- 

 tables, with which the country abounds : they were after- 

 ward feen by Byron and Wallis, who palled them without 

 landing. 



In order to extend our view in the day time, the mips 

 fpread between two and three leagues from each other, 

 and during the night, we went under an eafy fail ; fo that 

 it was fcarcely poflible to pafs any land that lay in the 

 neighbourhood of our courfe. In this manner we pro- 

 ceeded, without any occurrence worth remarking, with a 

 frelh breeze from the North Eaft, till the 2 2d, when it in- Monday 22.' 

 creafed to a ftrong gale, with violent fqualls of wind and 

 rain, which brought us under clofe reefed top-fails. 



At noon of the 23d, the latitude, by account, was 21 $', Tuefday 23. 

 and longitude 123 20' ; at fix in the evening, being now 

 only twenty-one leagues from the Bafhee iflands, according 

 to the fituation in Mr. Dalrymple's map, and the weather 

 fqually attended with a thick haze, we hauled our wind 

 to the North North Weft, and handed the fore top-fail. 



During the whole of the 24th it rained incefTantly, and Wednef. 24. 

 the wind ftill blew a ftorm ; a heavy fea rolled down on us 

 from the North, and in the afternoon we had violent flafhes 

 of lightning from the fame quarter. We continued upon a 

 wind to the North North Weft till nine o'clock, when we 

 tack-ed, and flood to the South South Eaft, till four in the 

 morning of the 25th, and then wore. During the night, Thurfdayzs. 

 there was an eclipie of the moon, but the rain prevented 



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