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^ XIV ^' ^^ ^^^ evening, judging myfelf about three leagues from 



• -■ the land, at w^hich diftance I wiflied to keep during the 



Septemiier. oight, we haulcd up our courfes, and under our top-fails 



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hour, until midnight; then wore fhip, and ftood to the 

 South Eaft by South a knot and a half per hour, until 

 two in the morning ; then wore again, and ftood to the 

 North North Eaft, until four in the morning, at which 

 time we wore and ftood to the South Eaft until daylight,, 

 which was about half an hour paft four. We then found 

 ourfelves about three leagues from the land, bore up, and 

 run in about South Weft, until abovit half paft feven. We 

 were then about five miles from the fhore, the canoes 

 coming ofi^ in numbers, and at eight a brifk trade began 

 for provifions and other neceftaries; hauled ofF to the North 

 by Eaft, with a light breeze from the Eaft by North. A 

 heavy fwell rolling in, made it neceflary to keep the fliip 

 under fail ; and with all the fail we could make, we could 

 fcarce hold our own againft it. 



At noon a moderate breeze from the Eaftward, with 

 clear weather, the Eaft point of Owhyhee bore South 

 Eaft by South about twelve leagues, and the Northermoft 

 part of the iftand in fight Weft by North about nine or 

 ten leagues, our diftance Irom the neareft fhore about four 

 or five miles : no obfervation to be depended on. During 

 the day caught feveral very large fharks. It is really afto- 

 niftiing to fee how little thefe people appear ta dread thofe 

 fifh. I have fcen five or fix large ftiarks fwimming about 

 the fhip, v/hen there have been, I dare fay, upwards of an 

 hundred Indians in the water, men and women ; they 

 feeniid quite indifferent about them, and the fharks never 



offered 



