300 VOYAGE IN SEARCH 



On the nth we ranged pretty clofe along the 

 Portland Iflands. 



In the afternoon of the 12th we made the 

 eafternmoil of the Admiralty Iflands. 



On the 1 8th, towards fun-fet, we difcovered 

 the Anchorites to the fouth-weft by weft. 



On the 2ift, about feven o'clock in the even- 

 ing, we loll Admiral D'Entrecafteaux. He 

 funk under the violence of a dreadful cho- 

 lic which he had experienced for two days. 

 For a little time paft he had had fome flight 

 fymptoms of fcurvy, but we were very far from 

 thinking ourfeives threatened with fo great 

 a lofs. 



On the 2d of Augufl: we perceived Traitors* 

 Iflands, and about noon we faw them bearing 

 from fouth 35'' weft to fouth 42*^ weft, at the 

 diflance of four myriameters ; we were then in 

 the latitude of 6' fouth, and longitude of 134'^ 3' 

 eaft. 



On the Sth our baker died of the fcurvy, his 

 whole body being alfecled by an emphyfemay 

 which the heats of the equator had incrcafed 

 with an aftonifning rapidity. 



On the nth we doubled the Cape of Good 

 Hope of New Guinea^, and on th.e i6th we an- 

 chored at Waygiou. 



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