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from which I hoped to make the island group of 

 Kawen by a S.E. course. The wind was violent, 

 and we tacked during the night. 



On the 10th, at six o'clock in the morning, we 

 reached the point which we so much wished for ; 

 all the sails that the high wind permitted us to 

 carry, were spread ; we advanced rapidly, and 

 hoped every moment to descry land, while the high 

 irregular waves kept the Rurick in violent motion. 

 At noon we were in latitude 8° 55' 5Qf' N. ; longi- 

 tude, according to the chronometers, 189° 20' 13" 

 W. The current had carried us, in twenty-four 

 hours, twelve miles and a quarter to S.W. 88°. We 

 had scarcely laid our instruments aside after the 

 observation, when land was descried from the mast- 

 head in the E., at a distance of ten miles. Some 

 of our gentlemen had already given up the hope of 

 finding the group, in the existence of which they 

 had begun to doubt. Lagediack had laid down its 

 situation pretty accurately ; it was forty-five miles 

 distant from Otdia. We quickly advanced to- 

 w^ards the group, which, with its islands, covered 

 with high palm-trees, afforded a more pleasing 

 prospect than Eregup. When we were off the 

 W. point, we saw in S. and S.E. a chain of islands 

 which extended so far that it seemed to be lost in 

 the horizon. On the western point is the largest 

 island of the group, which we afterwards learnt 

 was called Kawen. At four o'clock in the after- 

 jioon, we were under the lee of the group, which 



