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CHAP. 

 V. 



W— — V ' 



1786. 



June. 



Monday 12. 



Tuefday 13. 



A VOYAGE TO THE 



Since our arrival at the Sandwich Iflands, we had 

 faked on board the King George feven tierces and two 

 hogfheads of pork, befides two tierces of bones, and had 

 not twenty pounds of meat fpoiled amongft the whole 

 quantity. In addition to the above, I fhall juft obferve, 

 that after the hogs are killed, they cannot be too expedi- 

 tioufly cleaned and falted ; for on that the fafety of the 

 meat principally depends, though I believe in moft coun- 

 tries where much pork is cured, they ufually leave it to 

 cool before the fait is laid on. This method, however, is 

 certainly a bad one ; for I have known a houfe in Virgi- 

 nia, by following it, to lofe near 600 hogs at one time; 

 whereas, had they begun faking while the meat was warm^ 

 and the blood running, I have every reafon to think that 

 the greatell part, if not all of it, would have been preferved* 



By this time we had procured near ten tons of fine 

 yams, and captain Dixon had got about eight tons on 

 board the Queen Charlotte. The health of both fhips 

 crews was well re-eftablifhed, and every neceffary bufinefs 

 being completed, no time was loft in getting the (hips 

 ready for fea, as the feafon for commencing our operations, 

 on the American coaft was already begun. 



At five o'clock in the morning of the 1 3th we un- 

 moored, and at eight o'clock we weighed and got under 

 fail, ftanding out of the bay (which obtained the name of 

 Yam Bay, from the great quantity of yams we procured 

 in it), with a frefii breeze at North Eaft. 



our 



As 

 fient one 



vifit to the Sandwich Iflands was a very tran- 

 , I had little opportunity of obtaining any in- 

 formation refpeding the manners and cufloms of the 



natives ^ 



