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Nothing occured worthy of note til] the 1 5th of Sep- chap. 
XX. 
tember, when about noon they faw the illand of Saypan, ' — v — ' 
bearing weft half north, twelve leagues diftant. The Monday 15. 
next day at noon the fouth end of Tinian was about Tuefday 17. 
four leaeues diftant : in the afternoon the fmall boat 
w^as hoifted out, and Mr. Anftis went in her to found a 
fmall bay round the fouth point of Saypan ; he returned 
at feven o'clock, having found from ten to twenty fa- 
thoms water about a mile off fliore, but the ground 
hard. The next morning, Mr. Anftis went on iliore in Thurfday 1 8= 
the fmall boat to endeavour to procure a bullock, great 
numbers of which were feen grazing on the ifland 
Tinian. At fix in the afternoon, they ftood round the 
fouth point of Tinian, but finding they could not fetch 
into the road, they brought to for the night. In the 
evening, Mr. Anftis returned with the beft part of a 
young bullock. The next morning at day light, they Friday 19.. 
made fail and ftood in for the road, and at nine o'clock 
came to anchor in eighteen fathoms, over a bottom of 
coral, about a mile and an half diftant from fliore. 
Soon after they anchored, a party were fent on fliore 
to hunt. 
From this to the 25 th, they had light winds varying Tj^u^fday 25 
from fouth to eaft, with frequent fhowers over the land, 
and the flies fo very troublefome that they found Captain 
Byron's 
