THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
21 3 
1777. 
April. 
every thing I wanted : and it being neceffary to run in the 
night, as well as in the day, I ordered Captain Clerke to 
keep about a league ahead of the Refolution. I ufed this 
precaution, becaufe his fhip could heft claw off the land; 
and it was very poflible we might fall in with fome, in our 
paffage. 
The longitude of Hervey’s Ifland, when flrft difcovered, 
deduced from Otaheite, by the time-keeper, was found to 
be 201 0 6 ' Eaft, and now, by the fame time-keeper, deduced 
from Queen Charlotte’s Sound, 200° 56' Eaft. Hence I con¬ 
clude, that the error of the time-keeper, at this time, did 
not exceed twelve miles in longitude. 
When we bore away, I fteered Weft by South, with a 
fine breeze Eafterly. I propofed to proceed firft to Middle- 
burgh, or Eooa ; thinking, if the wind continued favour¬ 
able, that we had food enough on board, for the cattle, to 
laft till we fhould reach that ifland. But, about noon, next 
day, thofe faint breezes, that had attended and retarded us Monday 7, 
fo long, again returned ; and I found it neceffary to haul 
more to the North, to get into the latitude of Palmerfton’s 
and Savage Iflands, difcovered in 1774, during my laft voy¬ 
age *; that, if neceflity required it, we might have re- 
courfe to them. 
This day, in order to fave our water, I ordered the ftill to 
be kept at work, from fix o’clock in the morning to four 
in the afternoon ; during wbich time, we procured from 
thirteen to fixteen gallons of frelh water. There has been 
lately made fome improvement, as they are pleafed to call 
it, of this machine, which, in my opinion, is much for the 
worfe. 
Thefe light breezes continued till the 10th, when we Thurfday J0 . 
* See Cook’s Voyage, Vol. ii. p. 2. 3, 
had, 
