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fucceeded in drawing off from them by means 

 of a light breeze from the fouth-caft, which 

 fprang up during the night ; we ran along them 

 on the following days, and on the 13th we dif- 

 covered, beyond this chain, towards the weft", 

 Moulin's Ifland, at the diftance of upwards of 

 three myriameters, and foon after we made 

 Huon's Illands. 



The next day, the 14th, our fhip was on the 

 point of ftriking on the fhoals with which thefe 

 iflands are furrounded, w^hen daylight fhewed 

 us all the danger of our fituation ; we imme- 

 diately tacked, and ftood away from them. 

 A few hours before the clofe of the day we dif- 

 covered that thefe reefs join to thofe along 

 which we had ranged the year before. 



Shortly after we diredled our courfe towards 

 the ifland of Santa Cruz *, which we defcried 

 to the north-weft, at about four myriameters 

 diftance, very early in the morning of the 20th. 



The next day, the 21 ft, being about four 



o'clock 



* This illand, wliich appears to have been firfl difcovered 

 by Mtndana in his fccond voyage, in the year 1596. received 

 the name of Egtnont IJJand from Captain Carteret, who vifitcd 

 t: in AugiiH: 1767. See Hawkefworth's ColleQ'ion of Voyages^ 

 Vol. I. page 356, 4to edition. See alfo Dalrymple's H'tJio~ 

 r'lcal ColleSl'ion, Herrera's Gcograph'ta hidia?ia H'tjioria de 

 fijs hrdias^ of Lopcs Vas Na'v'tgatlons aux Tcrres Aujirales^oy 

 Oe BrolTcs. T. i 



