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1779. next morning, it fettled at Eaft, and blew fo frefh, as to 
oblige 11s to double-reef the top-fails. At feven, on haul¬ 
ing round the Weft point of Morotoi, we opened a fmall 
bay, at the diftance of about two leagues, with a fine fandy 
beach; but feeing no appearance of frelh water, we ftood 
on to the North, in order to get to the windward of Woa- 
hoo, an ill and which we had feen at our firft vifit, in Ja¬ 
nuary 1778. 
At two in the afternoon, we faw the land bearing Weft 
by North, eight leagues diftant; and having tacked as foon 
Saturday 27. as it was dark, we again bore away at day-light on the 27th; 
and at half paft ten, were within a league of the fhore, near 
the middle of the North Eaft fide of the ifland. 
The coaft, to the N orthward, is formed of detached hills, 
riling perpendicularly from the fea, with ragged and bro¬ 
ken fummits; the fides covered with wood, and the vallies 
between them of a fertile and well-cultivated appearance. 
To the Southward, we faw an extenfive bay, bounded by a 
low point of land to the South Eaft, which was covered 
with cocoa-nut trees; and off it ftood a high infulated rock, 
about a mile from the fhore. The hazinefs of the weather 
prevented our feeing diftincftly the land to the Southward 
of the point; we could only perceive that it was high and 
broken. 
As the wind continued to blow very frelh, we thought it 
dangerous to entangle ourfelves with a lee-fhore; and there¬ 
fore did not attempt to examine the bay, but hauled up, and 
fteered to the Northward in the direction of the coaft. At 
noon we were abreaft of the North point of the illahd, 
about two leagues from the land, vdiich is low and flat, and 
has a reef ftretching off it to the diftance of near a mile 
and a half. The latitude, by obfervation, 21 0 50' North, 
longitude 
