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piirchafing yams and water. In the morning I received a ^ ^^^ ^' 

 letter, by the hands of one of the chiefs, from Mr. Da- ^^ — ■"-—* 

 vid Rofs, chief mate of the fnow Nootka ; in which oaobeV. 

 he mentioned their having failed from this ifland on the ""^^^^ ^' 

 5th day of the lafl: month : he likewife informed me that 

 they left an anchor in Yam Bay, and fuppofed that their 

 cable was cut by the Indians ; but I fhould rather fuppofe by 

 the rocks. Some other letters were received by different 

 people on board from the Nootka, which gave an account 

 of their having loft an anchor at Mowee, and a large grapnel 

 at fome other place. 



A FRESH breeze from the Eaftward, with open cloudy Sunday;, 

 weather, moft of thefe twenty-four hours. In the evening 

 bufily employed in purchafing yams and water ; and by 

 £x o'clock had completed that bufinefs ; having procured 

 about twelve tons of yams, a quantity of potatoes, and 

 filled feven butts and two puncheons of water; at eight 

 in the morning the meffenger returned from Atoui with 

 captain Dixon's letter, which I found dated the i8th of 

 September; and that he had left the coaft on the 9th of 

 Auguft, all well, and with fifteen hundred fkins. He 

 likewife informed me, that off King George's Sound he 

 fell in with a fhip and floop under Company's colours ; I 

 fhould fuppofe our Company's, the fhip called the Prince 

 of Wales, commanded by a captain Colnett ; the floop's 

 name he did not mention ; fhe was commanded by a captain 

 Duncan ; and Mr. John Etches was fupercargo. Captain 

 Colnett informed him that he had juft come out of King 

 George's Sound; at which place he had found lying a fhip 

 under Imperial colours, commanded by captain Barclay, and 



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