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the weather continued flill fo bad that we could not make ^ ^^^ ^• 

 any trial for our anchor. *- — '-—' 



Jaivuary. 



From the 28th- to the 30th the weather ftill fo very Sunday 23. 

 fqually, that we could not attempt getting our anchors, 

 and not thinking it fafe to lie in our prefent iituation, we 

 weighed and came to fail ; the Queen Charlotte and the 

 long-boat in company, flood to the Southward to clear 

 the ifland of Gneehow ; and as the wind ftill lay to the 

 Northward and Weftward, which prevented us doing any 

 thing towards recovering our anchors, I meant to anchor 

 and get a frefh fupply of provifions. 



On the 31ft came to anchor in Wymoa Bay with the Wedner. 31, 

 fmall bower in twenty-nine fathoms water, over a bottom 

 of fine muddy black fand. When moored, we lay nearly 

 abreaft of the river and the town of Wymoa, from which 

 we immediately had a fufficient fupply of provifions of 

 different kinds. 



Variously employed on board. Abbenooe difpatcheda February. 

 meflenger to the king to acquaint him of our arrival. "^ ^^'' 



On the 2d, 3d, and 4th, employed in working up Friday 2. 

 junks, painting the fhip, and other neceffary jobs. 



A GENTLE breeze from the South Weft, with fine wea- Monday,-. 

 ther. 1 gave the fecond watch leave to go on fhore : a 

 number of Abbenooe' s people attended them by his order, to 

 prevent quarrels between the feamen and the natives, and 

 to furnifh them v/ith provifions. His orders were punftuaily 

 attended to. In the evening, when the people returned, 

 I found not a theft had been attempted, but they had 

 . B b 2 been 



