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tone, pointing to their ifland, on which they 

 invited us to land; they then came a little 

 nearer, but a very hard fquall forced them to 

 regain the fhore. 



Thefe iflanders were as naked as the inhabi- 

 tants of Egmont Ifland, to whom they bear 

 much refemblance. 



The next morning, at day-break, it was per- 

 ceived that the currents had carried us, during 

 the night, eighteen miles to the eaftward. Our 

 furprife was the greater, as the eailerly winds 

 which then prevailed ought to have occalioned 

 contrary currents. Are the tides the caufe of 

 this fmgular diredion of the waters of the fea 

 in this quarter? 



At ten o'clock four canoes left the coafl, 

 and advanced to within about four hundred 

 meters of our fliip; but we could not wait for 

 them to approach any nearer, for we were 

 obliged to continue our courfe, in order to 

 weather a cape, which, in the polition we were 

 in, would have interrupted the nautical obferva- 

 tions intended to be made. 



At noon we were in latitude io 23^ fouth, and 

 longitude 158^ 57' eaft, and we faw at a little 

 diflance the fea breaking with great violence 

 againft Cape Phillip, which is very bluff. We 

 doubled it about four o'clock in the afternoon, 

 and immediately after we difcovercd a large 



bay. 



