A VOYAGE TO 
1776. 
February. 
March. 
Saturday 9. 
May. 
Monday 6. 
Thurfday 30. 
June. 
Saturday £. 
purchafed into the fervice, and the command of her given 
to Captain Clerke, who had been my fecond Lieutenant on 
board the Refolution, in my fecond voyage round the worlds 
from which we had lately returned. 
Thefe two fhips were, at this time, in the dock at Dept¬ 
ford, under the hands of the fhipwrights; being ordered to 
be equipped to make farther difeoveries in the Pacific Ocean,, 
under my direction. 
On the 9th of March, the Refolution was hauled out of 
dock into the River; where we completed her rigging, and 
took on board the ftores and provifions requifite for a voy¬ 
age of fuch duration. Both fhips, indeed, were fupplied 
with as much of every necefiary article as we could conve¬ 
niently ftow, and with the belt of every kind that could be 
procured. And, befides this, every thing that had been 
found, by the experience acquired during our former ex- 
tenfive voyages, to be of any utility in preferring the health 
of feamen, was fupplied in abundance. 
It was our intention to have failed to Long Reach on the 
6th of May, when a pilot came on board to carry us thither; 
but it was the 29th before the wind would permit us to 
move; and the 30th before we arrived at that Ration, where 
our artillery, powder, fhot, and other ordnance ftores were 
received. 
While we lay in Long Reach, thus employed, the Earl of 
Sandwich, Sir Hugh Pallifer, and others of the Board of Ad¬ 
miralty, as the laft mark of the very great attention they 
had ah along fhewn to this equipment, paid us a vifit on 
the 8th of June, to examine whether every thing had been 
completed conformably to their intentions and orders, and 
to the fatisfa£tion of all who were to embark in the voyage. 
They, and feveral other Noblemen and Gentlemen their 
friends, 
