CHAP. 



XIV. 

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Sunday 4. 



NORTH WEST COAST OF AMERICA. 317 



South Weft point is a fmall ifland, bearing North half 



Weft, diftant three or four leao;ues ; from which ifland >- — — 



1787. 

 there is a reef running off in the diredion of about South November 



Weft, to the diftance of a league and a half; and there is 



alfo a reef running off from this fmall ifland that feems to 



join to Sayphan. 



We obferved a number of white animals grazing on the 

 plains of, Tinian, which we fuppofe to be the white cattle 

 that Lord Anfon fays the ifland of Tinian fo much abounds 

 with. We could not, although within half a mile of Say- 

 pan, obferve an animal of any kind. Both iflands ap- 

 pear beyond defcription beautiful, abounding in immenfe 

 quantities of cocoa-nut and other trees. We could not 

 pafs fo near thefe beautiful iflands without wiihing very 

 much to partake of the refrefhments they could fo amply 

 furnifli us with, particularly the frefli beef and acid fruits, 

 articles to which we have been ftrangers for upwards of 

 two years : but as through the blefling of God we were all 

 in perfe6t health, and not being in need of any refrefli- 

 ments, and having a fine fteady brifk gale, I thought it 

 moft advifable to pufli on for China; therefore, after get- 

 ting through the pafla.ge, ftood away to the Weft North 

 Weft, with a brifk gale at North Eaft by North. And to 

 the honour ot the King George's fliip's company be it 

 ever remembered, that on this fo tempting an occaflon (as 

 indeed on all others), not a m.urmur was heard, nor a dif- 

 contented face feen. From this time to the 15th Novem- 

 ber nothing occurred in particular to excite the reader's 



attention. 



A FRESH 



