264 A VOYAGE TO 
c HAP. fliall to be thofe which Lord Anfon difcovered, and 
XXI. 
named Barbadoes Iflands, 
^June, 1788. 
Having now a clear navigation, they profecnted the-ir 
voyage without meeting with any thing worthy of notice 
ThuSvji 31ft of July, when at fix clock in the morning 
they faw the illand of Saypan bearing weft by fouth fix 
leagues diftant. Having light baffling winds, they did 
not get in with the land till the approach of evening, fo 
that the night was fpent in ftanding off and on. At 
Ai^un, day-light the next morning, Captain Mariliall fent his 
boat on fliore, with the chief mate and four feamen, to 
procure fome refrefliments, and look for anchorage. At 
■ two o'clock in the afternoon, the boats returned loaded 
with cocoa-nuts and cabbage, both, as the men reported, 
.from the fame tree, but they could find no place for a 
vvefiel to anchor in, the water being very deep clo'fe to 
the land, wdth a rocky bottom, and fo heavy a furf 
that the boat did not land without great difficulty. Not 
meeting with a harbour at Sapan, the Captain deter- 
. mined to make the beft of his way to Tinian, where he 
' might come to anchor and get his fick people on fiiore, 
" havinp- no lefs than fifteen men laid up with the fcurw, 
and the reft of his crew were fo weak that they could 
fcarcely work the fliip : the wind, however, was fo va- 
; liable, that they did not reach the fouth-weft fide of that 
i iiland till afternoon on the 4th, when they anchored in 
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