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of north by eaft, eight miles diftant ; it appeared very c h a p. 
low, flat, and full of trees. By four o'clock^ they were 
June, 1788, 
clofe ill with the fouthernmoft land, and faw a great 
number of canoes failing clofe to the fhore, fome of 
which came towards the fliip, and two of them very 
near, but nothing would entice them to come along-iide. ' 
The people appeared much the fame as thofe at Hender- 
ville's lilandj and their canoes were of a iimilar con- 
ilru6i:ion ; one of them had a kind of vane at the maft 
head, v/hich appeared to be made of the fame materials as 
their fail. In, running along fliore, they found it to confift 
of lix different iflands, extending from north by eafl to 
fouth by weft, to the length of fourteen or fifteen 
leagues; the centre of them is fituated in 1° 58' north 
latitude, and 173° 00' eaft longitude. The fouthernmoft 
ifland, Captain Marfliall named ^f//^;^'s Ifland ; the fe- 
cond, GiJlefpfs Ifland; the third. Touch lug's Ifland; the 
fourth, Clarke's Ifland ; the fifth. Smith's ifland ; and 
the northernmoft, Scarborough Ifland. They ran along 
thefe iflands about three miles diflant from the land, 
and kept the lead conftantly going, but could get no 
bottom, which appeared rather extraordinary as the land 
is very low. There appears to be good anchorage be- 
tween thefe iflands, and the water very fmooth, and they 
feem to abound with cocoa-nut and cabbao-e trees. By 
the time they were abreaft of Scarborough Ifland, it 
grew fo dark that they could not fee the land ; luckily, 
L 1 2 however? 
