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feven or eight leagues, the South head of Oneehow Eall ^ ^^^ p* 

 about eleven or twelve leagues diftant, and the Northern- v- .. -^ 

 mofl; part of the ifland in light North 6^" Eaft. oaober. 



^ , Monday 8. 



At noon a fine gale, with pleafant weather, latitude 

 obferved, 21° 26' North, longitude about 161" 56' Weft. 

 Taking our departure from the ifland of Tahoora, it 

 lying in the latitude of 21° 43' North, and longitude 160° 

 24^ Weft of Greenwich, variation about 9° Eaft. From 

 this time to the 4th of November nothing particular oc- 

 curred. 



A FRESH gale from the North Eaft, with hazy wea- November. 

 ther, fteeringWeft North Weft half Weft, five knots per ^"'''^'^^• 

 hour. At five in the evening I got a fet of azimuths, 

 which gave the variation 7° 54^ Eaft; at eight hauled in 

 the lower fteering- fails. At this time, according to the 

 fituation given Tinian by captain Cook, Eaft point lati- 

 tude neareft 14° 55'' North, and longitude 213° 45' Weft 

 of Greenwich, I judged it to bear North 84° Weft, and 

 diftant eighty-four miles ; and as we had a fine brifk gale 

 from the North Eaft, with clear weather, I determined 

 to run on all night, hoping to get a fight of the ifland 

 about daylight, which is between five and fix. At midnight 

 a fine fteady fix and a half knot gale from the North Eaft. 

 At two in the m.orning a feven knot gale, hauled in the top- 

 maft fteering-fails. Juft at daylight, which was about 

 half paft five, faw the ifiands of Saypan and Tinian, 

 the North point of Saypan bearing Weft North Weft, 

 diftant about feven or eight leagues, and the Eaft point of 

 Tinian bearing South Weft half Weft, diftant eleven or 

 twelve leagues, the North point of Tinian fhut in vvith the' 



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