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1 6. Saw the illands of Whitfuntidc and Aurora, dlfcovercd by Capt. Qairos, and vifited hy 



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M, dc Bougainville. 

 18, Puffed between M. dc Bougainville's PicderAverdi (orPicderEtoUe) and Aurora Ifland, 



The latter is about 12 leagues long, and 4 or 5 miles broad. Its middle lies nearly in 

 "15° 06' S. aiuri68'^ 24^ E. Came in fight of the Illo of Lepers, fo called by M. de 

 Bougainville. ' 



20, Paffed between the Iflc of Lepers and Aurora, towards Whitfuntide Ifland. The Ifle of 



Lepers is found to be about 20 leagues in circuit, its middle lying in 15^ 20^ S. unc^ 

 168'^ 03^ E. Whitfuntide Ifland is about 12 leagues long, and about 6 miles broad, 

 in the broadeft part ; the middle in 15° 45^ S. and 168^ 28^ E. 

 XI. Saw an ifland to the South of Whitfuntide Ifland, which (as we afterwards learnt) the na- 

 tives call Ambrrym. Its extent E. and W". or thereabouts is 7 leagues, and its circuit 

 near 20. Its middle lies in 16^ 15^ S. and 168^ 20^ E.. 

 Soon after difcovered another ifland to the Weft, of confiderahle extent, named Mallicol- 

 lo, two others to the S. E, named Pa-oom and Apee, and another to the South, which 

 was called Three-Hills Ifle* In the afternoon anchored in Port Sandwich, on the ifle 

 of Mallicollo* 

 Sailed from Mallicollo, in the morning. This ifland lies about N. N. W. and S. S. E. 

 20 leagvies long, and about 55 in circuit. Its North point h in 15° ^o' S. and 167^^ 

 23^ E. and Port Sandwich near the S. E. end, Is in 16° 28' S. and 167° 56^ E. 

 Left the Ifle of Pa-oom to the N. E. of us in the afternoon ; we remained dubious whe- 

 ther it does not confill of two iflands, of which the Eafternmoll is a high peak, fituated 

 in 16'' 25'' S. and 168^ 30^ E. Th^ whole circumference of the ifland does not ex- 

 ceed 5 leagues. The ifland of Apee, a little to the Southv/ard of it, Is about 7 leagues 

 long, and Its middle is in 16^ 42^ S. and 168'^ 36^ E. 



24. In the morning ran clofe up to the Three-Hills Ifland, which is not above two leagues 



long, and lies in 17° 04^ S. and 168° 32^E. 



In the afternoon examined fome fmall iflcs oiFthe S. E. end of Apee, which were called; 

 Shepherd's Ifles. ' ' . 



25. Paffed by a fmall ifland, which v/c called Two-Hills Ifland, to the South of Three-PIills 



and faw a rock near it, which received the nanie of the Monument. In the -evenin<^ 

 we were becalmed near a large Ifland, which we had difcovered the day before. 



j6, Paffed the new ifland in the afternoon, and called it Sand-vvich Illand; Its middle is in 



17° 45^ S. and 168^ 30' E. It lies nearly S. E. and N. W. and may mcafure 2^ 



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were called Montagu and Hinchingbrook. 



27. At day-break we difcovered another new ifliind to the S..S, E. ' 



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28. Difcovered another flill more to the S. E. and a great way further ofL 



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