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dent caution, to every future Commander, not to attempt 
that paflage again with a fhip of burden ; iince the other, 
by which we left it, is fo much more eafy and fafe. To 
fail into it, by this Eaftern channel, fleer in for the North 
Eaft point of the illand, and keep along the North fhore, 
with the fmall ifles on your ftarboard, till you are the length 
of the Eaft point of the entrance into the lagoon ; then edge 
over for the reef of the fmall ifles; and, on following its 
direction, it will conduct you through between Makkahaa 
and Monooafai, or the fourth and fifth ifles, which you will 
perceive to lie off the Weft point of the lagoon. Or you may 
go between the third and fourth iflands, that is, between 
Pangimodoo and Monooafai; but this channel is much 
narrower than the other. There runs a very ftrong tide in 
both. The flood, as I have obferved before, comes in from 
the North Weft, and the ebb returns the fame way; but I 
fhall fpeak of the tides in another place. As foon as you 
are through either of thefe channels, haul in for the fhore 
of Tongataboo, and anchor between it and Pangimodoo, 
before a creek leading into the lagoon ; into which boats 
can go at half flood. 
Although Tongataboo has the bell harbour, Annamooka 
furnifhes the beft water; and yet, it cannot be called good. 
However, by digging holes near the fide of the pond, we 
can get what may be called tolerable. This ifland, too, is 
the beft fituated for drawing refrefliments from all the 
others, as being nearly in the centre of the whole group. 
Beftdes the road in which we anchored, and the harbour 
within the South Weft point, there is a creek in the reef, 
before the Eaftern fandy cove, on the North fide of the 
ifland, in which two or three fhips may lie very fecurely, 
Vol. I. 3 G by 
1777. 
