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t!ieir anchor up (which they otherwife would hot have chap. 
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been able to have efFedted) and bore away to the north ^-^~^-> 
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north-weft. At noon the body of Tinian bore eaft half 
fouth, about four leagues diftant» 
During their ftay at Tinian, filling water took up the 
whole of their time, the well not affording more than 
three tons a day, fometimes only two tons : the water 
was rather brackifli, but otherwife not ill tafted. They 
found the fowls and hogs very iliy, and the cattle had 
quite defertcd the fouth part of the ifland, owing, as 
was imagined, to the alarm the Charlotte's people had 
occafioned among them. , 
They obtained two bulls, eight hogs, and about 
dozen fowls ; they alfo got bread fruit, but it was ^ 
fome diftance up the country, and the generality of it ■ 
not ripe : there was abundance of guavas but they 
were not in feafon ; limes and four oranges were alfo 
very plentiful. Cocoa-nut trees were in abundance, V 
but thofe within a moderate diftance from the beach 
were cut down, fo that the diftance they had to go for 
any was attended with too much fatigue to compenfate 
for the advantages which could be derived from them, 
as they experienced from two or three attempts of the 
kind : the feafon in general feemed very backward. In 
addition 
