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AN ACCOUNT OF 
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A U GUST 
Friday 29. 
ground cleared, in order to ufe it as a look-out or obferva- 
tory, to fee if a paffage could be discovered in the reek On 
examination, it was thought that there was apparently a 
good one, right out from the weft point of the illand.— It 
had hitherto been a great doubt among our people, whe¬ 
ther a veffel of the Size theirs muft be (though intended to 
be no larger than was neceflary to convey themfelves and 
provisions in fafety to China) would be able to find a paf¬ 
fage through the reef capable of allowing her to float over. 
Arra Kooker left the illand this day, and another frame 
timber was got up.—The Chinefe were bulled in waShing 
the few clothes that were faved. 
The weather cloudy; no canoes at the illand. —The 
boatfwain employed in making a main-fail for the veffel out 
of the remains of the fails that had been faved.—The jolly- 
boat made three trips for timber to-day, which being cut 
down at the back of the illand and roughed off, they could 
eafily manage to bring round.—It was found that the tides 
rofe about nine feet upon the Spring, and it was high-water 
about nine o’clock upon the full and change of the moon. 
About four P. M. Mr. Benger, Mr. Wilson, and the China - 
man 9 returned in a canoe, and foon after Raa Kook with the 
linguift in another. Mr. Benger brought an account, that 
they were received and treated by the King and his people 
with the moft perfect friendship and hofpitality; that they 
were constantly praifing the power and exploits of the 
Engli/hy to whom they afcribed the fuccefs in the late bat¬ 
tle ; 
