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terrors ; and, thinking that we should have many better 

 opportunities of communication with this people, buffered 

 them to go off without interruption. 



" At noon the wind freshened, and brought with it a good 

 deal of rain ; by three it had increased so much that the 

 sea ran as high as any one on board ever remembered to 

 have seen it. 



" At eight in the evening the gale shifted to the west, 

 without abating the least in violence, and, by raising a 

 sudden swell in a contrary direction to that which prevailed 

 before, occasioned the ships to strain and labour exceed- 

 ingly. During the storm several of the sails were split on 

 board the Resolution. 



" From the 29th of October to the 5th of November, we 

 continued our course to the south-east, having very un- 

 settled weather, attended with much lightning and rain. 

 On both days we passed great quantities of pumice stone, 

 several pieces of which we took up and found to weigh 

 from one ounce to three pounds. We conjectured that 

 these stones had been thrown into the sea by eruptions of 

 various dates, as many of them were covered with barnacles, 

 and others quite bare. 



> " On the 15th we saw three islands, and bore away for 

 the south point of the largest, upon which we observed a 

 high barren hill, flattish at the top, and when seen from the 

 west south-west, presents an evident volcanic crater. The 

 earth, rock, or sand, for it was not easy to distinguish of 

 jjwhich its surface is composed, exhibited various colours, 

 fcnd a considerable part we conjectured to be sulphur, both 

 (from its appearance to the eye, and the strong sulphurous 

 ;smell which we perceived as we approached the point. 

 Some of the officers on board the Resolution, which passed 

 nearer the land, thought they saw steam rising from the 

 top of the hili. From these circumstances Captain Gore 

 gave it the name of Sulphur Island. 



" Captain Gore now directed his course to the west south- 

 west for the Bashee Islands, hoping to procure at them such 

 a supply of refreshments as would help to shorten his stay 

 ijat Macao ; but unfortunately he overshot them, from an 

 inaccuracy in the chart to which he trusted. 

 I " In the forenoon of the 29th we passed several Chinese 

 fishing boats, who eyed us with great indifference. Being 

 now nearly in the latitude of the Lema Islands, we bore 

 Away west by north, and, after running twenty-two miles, 

 saw one of them nine or ten leagues to the westward. 

 i " In the morning of the 30th we ran along the Lema Isles. 

 At nine o'clock a Chinese boat, which had been before with 

 the Resolution, came alongside, and wanted to put on board 



