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exposed decompofition was finely owing only 

 to the little care that had heen taken in rincing 

 out the water-calks. There had remained in 

 them enough of the inflammable particles con- 

 tained in the old water to fpeedily corrupt the 

 new. 



It is certainly very difagreeablc to have to drink 

 water as {linking as that of the moll filthy bogs ; 

 but no appreheniion remains on the mind, when 

 it is known that by agitating it for fomc minutes, 

 in the manner I have before indicated, it regains 

 its original purity. 



As early as half paft four o'clock in the morn- 

 ing, we perceived by the light of the liars the 

 Jfland of Savu, which bore from weft 13 fouth 

 to fouth 2y weft. We were only two kilome- 

 ters from the coaft. We fteered weft, in order 

 to pafs to the northward of this little ifland; and 

 about half paft nine o'clock we found our/elves 

 abreaft of the bay in which Captain Cook entered 

 in his fecond voyage, after having paffed through 

 Endeavour Strait*: we diftinguifhed five ca- 

 noes afloat quite dole to the beach, where they 

 were fheltered from the fea, which was breaking 

 on a fmall reef even with the water's edge. 



* This is a miftake of the author. It was in his firft voyage 

 that Captain Cook anchored at the Ifland of Savu, of which 

 he gives a particular defcription. See Hawkefworth's Collection 

 cf foyages^ vol. hi. page 267 and following. T. 



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