26l VOYAGE IN SEARCH 



CHAPTER VII. 



Departure from Carteret's Harbour. The Efpi- 

 ranee lofes an anchor at the mouth of this har- 

 bour. Paffage through St. George's Channel. 

 We get fight of the Portland 'lflands. Various 

 interviews with the inhabitants of the Admiralty 

 lflands. Their whimfical coftume. Dcfpotifm 

 of the chiefs. Canoes. AJtoniJhing rapidity of 

 their failing. IVe make the Hermits lflands. 

 Their inhabitants. We get fight of the Echi- 

 quier. We difcover a new ljland. A water- 

 fpout. We viake New Guinea. Paffage through 

 Pitt's Strait. Singular cjfefis of the tides. 

 Ravages of the f curvy. We anchor at sfmboyna. 



(JN the 24th of July we got under weigh from 

 Carteret's Harbour, about eleven o'clock in the 

 morning, and we availed ourfclves of a light 

 breeze from the fouth-eaft, in order to fail out by 

 the opening to the north-weft, between Cocoa- 

 nut Ifland and New Ireland. 



The currents carried us to the weft north- wefr, 

 and at noon we were already a myrianieter to 

 the weft fouth-weft of our anehoring-place. 



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