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A VOYAGE TO 
1779. All profpedl of examining more nearly the South Eaft 
February^ p arts 0 f M 0 wee being now deftroyed, we bore away, and 
ran along the South Eaft iide of Tahoorowa. As we were 
fteering clofe round its Weftern extremity, with an inten¬ 
tion of fetching the Weft ftde of Mo wee, we fuddenly 
fhoaled our water, and obferved the fea breaking on fome 
detached rocks, almoft right a-head. This obliged us to 
keep away a league and a half, when we again fleered to 
the Northward ; and, after palling over a bank, with nine¬ 
teen fathoms water, flood for a paflage between Mowee and 
an ifland called Ranai. At noon, the latitude was, by ob- 
fervation, 20° 42' North, and the longitude 203° 22' Eaft; 
the Southern extremity of Mowee bearing Eaft South Eaft, 
quarter Eaft; the Southern extremity of Ranai Weft North 
Weft, quarter Weft; Morotoi, North Weft and by North; 
and the Weftern extremity of Tahoorowa, South by Eaft, 
feven miles diftant. Our longitude was accurately deduced 
from obfervations made by the time-keeper before and after 
noon, compared with the longitude found by a great many 
diftances of the moon from the fun and ftars, which were 
alfo obferved the fame day. 
In the afternoon, the weather being calm, with light 
airs from the Weft, we flood on to the North North Weft; 
but, at fun-fet, obferving a fhoal, which appeared to 
flretch to a confiderable diftance from the Weft point of 
Mowee, toward the middle of the paftage, and the wea¬ 
ther being unfettled, we tacked, and flood toward the 
South. 
The South Weft fide of this ifland, which we now had 
paffed without being able to get near the fliore, forms the 
fame diftant view with the North Eaft, as feen on our return 
from the North, in November 1778; the mountainous parts, 
which 
