224 A VOYAGE TO 
1777- land ; there was not, as yet, a fingle perfon, on hoard, 
4 lick, from the conftant ufe of fait food, or viciffitude of 
climate. 
Thurfday 24. In the night between the 24th and 25th we paffed Savage 
Monday 28. Mand, which I had difcovered in 1774*; and on the 28th,, 
at ten o’clock in the morning, we got fight of the illands 
which lie to the Eaftward of Annamooka, bearing North by 
Weft, about four or five leagues diftant. I fleered to the 
South of thefe iflands, and then hauled up for Annamooka; 
which, at four in the afternoon, bore North Weft by North, 
Fallafajeea South Weft by South, and Komango North by 
Weft, diftant about five miles. The weather being fqually, 
with rain, I anchored, at the approach of night, in fifteen 
fathoms deep water, over a bottom of coral-fand, and 
fhells ; Komango bearing North Weft, about two leagues 
diftant. 
* For an account of the difcovery of Savage Ifland; a defcription of it) and the 
behaviour of its inhabitants, on Captain Cook’s landing, fee his Voyage, Vol. ii. p. 3. 
to p. 7. 
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