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and even language, to the nations we had been fo much 1780. 
converfant with, in the South Seas. The effects of the Ja- v Fe ^ uary ; 
vanefe climate, and I did not efcape without my full lhare 
of it, made me incapable of purfuing the comparifon fo 
minutely as I could have wifhed. 
The country abounds with wood to fuch a degree, that 
notwithstanding the quantity cut down every year by the 
fhips which put into the road, there is no appearance of 
its diminution. We were well fupplied with fmall turtle, 
and fowls of a moderate lize ; the laft were fold at the rate 
of ten for a Spanilh dollar. The natives alfo brought us 
many hog-deer, and a prodigious number of monkeys, 
to our great annoyance, as molt of our bailors provided 
themfelves with one, if not two, of thefe troublefome ani¬ 
mals. 
As we Should have met with fome difficulty in finding the 
watering-place, if Mr. Lannyon had not been with us, it 
may be worth while, for the ufe of future navigators, to 
defcribe its fituation more particularly. The peaked hill 
on the ifland, bears from it North Weft by North; a re¬ 
markable tree growing upon a coral reef, and quite detach¬ 
ed from the neighbouring fhrubs, ftands juft to the North¬ 
ward ; and clofe by it, there is a fmall plot of reedy grabs, 
the only piece of the kind that can be been hereabout. 
Thefe marks will fhew the place where the pool empties 
itfelf into the fea; but the water here is generally fait, as 
well as that which is in the pool. The calks muft there¬ 
fore be filled about fifty yards higher up; where, in dry 
feafons, the frefh water that comes down from the hills, is 
loft among the leaves, and muft be fearched for by clearing 
them away. 
The 
