CHAPTER XIIL 
madison’s island.—-happah war. 
After passing the island I have-to for the night, and direct- 
ed my prizes as they came up to do the same. We had here very 
heavy squalls and some showers of rain; and at day light next 
morning I bore up for the island of Nooaheevah, which I shall 
hereafter call Madison’s Island, which bore from us W. not more 
than ten leagues distant. At the dawn of day I made the signal 
to bear up for the anchorage of Madison’s Island, and stood in 
for the point forming the E. side of the weather bay, called by 
lieutenant Hergest, (who appears to be the first navigator that 
discovered it)' Comptroller’s Bay. This point is steep, and the coast 
from thence to the N. appears iron bound and inaccessible, and 
the whole island seems to have suffered much during former pe¬ 
riods, from the ravages of volcanoes. On standing in for Comptrol¬ 
ler’s Bay, I perceived a rock above water at the distance of one mile 
and a half or two miles from the point: this I left on the starboard 
hand and stretched into the bay, which was deep, spacious, and 
appeared very safe and commodious. It contains several interior 
bays, which seemed to afford good landing; several pleasant vil¬ 
lages were situated near the beaches, and the houses were inter¬ 
spersed among the trees of the valleys, which appeared highly- 
cultivated and thickly inhabited. Several canoes came off the 
point, but none seeming disposed to visit us, I bore up for a small 
but high island, about two leagues to leward, which I supposed 
formed one side of the entrance of the harbour, where I intended 
anchoring, which is called by lieutenant Hergest Port Anna Maria. 
In about an hour after bearing up, we opened the bay, which ap- 
peared to offer us every advantage we could possibly desire. It 
may be known by the small, but high and rocky island before-men¬ 
tioned, which forms the E. side, and a similar one, but more in 
the form of a sugar loaf, which forms the W. side of the entrance. 
About half way between the entrance and Comptroller’s Bay, is a 
