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^ 5iv ^ confined air, and at the fame time moderate breezes and 



^^ -* fmooth water, which enables the canoes to come off with 



odober. greater care and fafety with their hogs and f^lt. 



Sanday/, ° y D 



From this part I would advife the navigator to run for 

 the Weft end of Ranai (the bearings and diftances of thefe 

 iflands from each other will be found, by confulting the 

 chart of them in captain Cook's laft voyage), and from 

 that point fail directly for the Weft point of Morotoi. 

 Should night come on, there is anchorage to the North- 

 ward of the Weft point of Morotoi, flieltered from the 

 prevailing winds. After leaving this ifland, fail diredlly 

 for the South Eaft point of Woahoo, and on rounding 

 that point anchor in King George's Bay. If found ne- 

 ceffarv to ftay there any time, it would be advifable to buoy 

 the cables. At this ifland I would advife the watering and 

 wooding bufinefs to be done, not by fending on fhore for 

 either article, but by encouraging the natives to bring 

 them to the vefteL 



To give any further directions refpedlng the navigation 

 amongft thefe iflands would be fuperfluous, as every parti- 

 cular on that head may be colleded from the detail of oc- 

 currences during our fecond viflt to them. I cannot help 

 obferving, that I think their fltuation and produce may 

 be productive of material benefit to our new fettlement 

 at Botany Bay, and at the fame time be a confiderable 

 faving to government in the articles of provifions, whicli 

 may be purchafed here at a trifling expence.. 



Mondays. A FRESH brcczc, with hazy weather, the wind at Eaft; 



the Weft end of Tahoora bore South 15° Eaft, diftant 



feven 



