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"After having fold their cargoes, they took their leave of us ; ^ ^^^ ^• 



as did our faithful friend, who left his fon onboard, wifhing ' -^ 



to go with us. ^ The Queen Charlotte in company. From February. 

 this day to the 16th nothing particular occurred. 



Early on the i6th our old friend Abbcnooe came off Ff'^J*/ i^- 

 from the Eafl: point of Atoui in a large double canoe, and 

 brought us a fine hog and fonie taro. I made him a pre- 

 fent, with which he was fatisfied, and immediately v/ent 

 on board the Queen Charlotte ; and on his leaving her, I 

 bore away to the Weftward, intending to run for Oneehow, 

 to make a trial for the recovery of our anchors left there. 

 Should I fucceed, I meant then, if pofTible, to return to 

 Wymoa Bay, and endeavour to get the Queen Charlotte's 

 fmall bower. I fhould, if there had been any dependence 

 on the weather, have tried for her's firft ; but as the 

 anchors at Oneehow were the greateft object, and there was 

 the moft likely probability of getting them (lying in fhoal- 

 water, and the befc bov/er having a buoy on it), I was 

 glad to embrace the firft fpurt of good weather, with an 

 Eafterly wind, to make the trial ; as a Northerly, South- 

 erly, or Wefterly wind create fuch a fwell, that it would 

 make it impoflible to do any thing of that kind. At fix 

 o'clock webrought-towiththe main-topfail to the mafi. My 

 reafon for taking this ftep was, that in cafe the breeze fhould 

 fail, and prevent us from proceeding to Oneehow, we 

 might be near Wymoa in the morning ; from whence 

 there was a probability of procuring fome vegetables. 

 When we brought-to, the extremes of Atoui bore about 

 North and North Weft, about feven miles diftance, until 

 ■daylight, when the appearance of the wind being fettled 

 to the Eaftward, we bore away, and made fail for Onee- 



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