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awnings were now of necessity put below, as the 
breeze being against us, the latter held so much wind, 
that until they were furled, we made but little pro- 
gress. As we drew near the Island of St. Thomas, 
the wind altered from south-west to the eastward 
of south, with smooth water. After dusk the nu- 
merous lights in the fishermen’s canoes had a very 
brilliant effect. We anchored at 8h. 30m. f.m. in four 
fathoms, at the north end of the Island St. Thomas, 
in Man-of-War Bay, where the ‘Pluto’ had arrived 
long before us. 
The shore of the bay is lined with a dense 
forest, principally of cocoa-nut trees and palms, 
from which the natives obtain oil. The first range of 
hills have all the appearance of volcanic origin, being 
