a68 VOYAGE IN SEARCH 



Thence, after having run along the coaft for 

 the diftance of a myriameter and a half, we ar- 

 rived oppoiite to a large bay, where doubtlefs 

 Avould be found a good bottom, but it is open to 

 the fuuth-eafi winds which were then blowing. 



Prefently we perceived towards the fouth, 

 in the offing, fome canoes which were making 

 for Egmont Illand ; others were {cen at a 

 greater diftance, and appeared to us employed 

 in fifhing on a fiioal : at the fame moment we 

 difcovered to the fouthward, another flioal 

 pretty near us, which extended very far to the 

 weflward. 



We had juft got fight of Volcano Ifland, when 

 a great number of canoes came out of Gracious 

 Bay and fleered towards us. As we had not 

 then a breath of wind, they had every oppor- 

 tunity of approaching us. We already reckoned 

 feventy-four that had flopped at the diftance 

 of from ciglit to nine hundred meters from the 

 fliip, when feme clouds gathering on the moun- 

 tains, made thefavages who were in thefeticklifh 

 vedels, apprehend the danger of being ovcrfet 

 if they kept longer at fea. They immediately 

 paddled towards the coaft, and they had not 

 reached it, when there arofe a violent wind, 

 accompanied by a heavy fall of rain, which 

 could not fail to retard them very much in 

 I heir rro^rcfs. 



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