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fliore, I did not think it prudent to run in with a lee ^ ^j^y^ p* 



ihore to look for anchorage. ' ' 



° 1786. 



June. 



We plied in this uncertain ftate till noon on the ifl of Thurfday n 

 June, when finding it would be impradlicable for us to 

 get round the North Eail point of the ifland without 

 wailing more time than could be fpared, we bore away 

 for the South Eaft point ; and at one o'clock being well 

 up with it, a fine bay made its appearance, which pro- 

 mifed to afi'ord good anchorage. We hauled round the 

 point, and fiood in for the bay. Soon afterwards, the 

 whale-boat was lowered down, and fent in fiiore to found. 

 At half paft two o'clock we came to an anchor in the bay, 

 which I diftinguiflied by the name of King George's Bay, 

 in twelve fathom water, over a bottom of fpeckled fand 

 and broken fiiells, and moored with the beft bower to the 

 Eaftward, and a kedge to the Weflward. The Eaft point 

 of the bay, which I diftinguifhed by the name of Point 

 Dick, in honour of Sir John Dick, the firft patron of 

 this voyage, bore Eaft by North one mile and a half; the 

 Weil point, which was named Point Rofe, after George 

 Rofe Efq. fecretary of the treafury, the fecond worthy 

 patron of our undertaking, bore Weft South Vv^efl half 

 Weft, about two leagues, and the bottom of the bay Nortb,. 

 two miles diftant. 



Soon after our arrival, feveral canoes came of? and 

 brought a few cocoa-nuts and plantains, fome fugar-cane 

 and fweet root; in return for which we gave them 

 fmall pieces of iron and a few trinkets. Towards even- 

 ing, a frefh breeze coming on at Eaft North Eaft, our vi- 

 fiters left us, and returned- on ftiore. 



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