winds; but that there was no frelh water to be found, ex¬ 
cept at fome diftance inland; and that, even there, little of 
it was to be got, and that little not good. For this reafon 
only, and it was a very fuffitient one, I determined to an¬ 
chor on the North lide of the ifland, where, during my 
lull voyage, I had found a place fit both for watering and 
landing. 
It was not above a league diflant; and yet we did not 
reach it till five o’clock in the afternoon, being confiderably 
retarded by the great number of canoes that continually 
crowded round the fhips, bringing to us abundant fupplies 
of the produce of their ifland. Amongft thefe canoes, there 
were fome double ones, with a large fail, that carried be¬ 
tween forty and fifty men each. Thefe failed round us, 
apparently, with the fame eafe, as if we had been at an¬ 
chor. There were feveral women in the canoes, who were, 
perhaps, incited by curiofity to vifit us; though, at the 
fame time, they bartered as eagerly as the men, and ufed 
the paddle with equal labour and dexterity. I came to an 
anchor in eighteen fathoms water, the bottom coarle coral 
land ; the iiland extending from Eafl to South Weft; and 
the Weft point of the Wefternmoft cove South Eaft, about 
three quarters of a mile diftant. Thus I refumed the very 
fame ftation which I had occupied when I vifited Anna- 
mooka three years before * ; and, probably, almoft in the 
fame place where Tafman, the firft difcoverer of this, and 
fome of the neighbouring illands, anchored in 1643 t. 
The following day, while preparations were making for 
* See Captain Cook’s laft Voyage, Vol. ii. p. 9. 
f See Tafman’s account of this ifland, in Mr. Dalrymple’s valuable Collection of 
Voyages to the Pacific Ocean, Vol. ii. p. 79, 80. The few particulars mentioned by 
Tafman, agree remarkably with Captain Cook’s more extended relation. 
waterings 
