A VOYAGE TO 
Saturday 3. 
Sunday 4. 
Monday 5. 
Next day, our various operations on fhore began. Some 
were employed in making hay for the cattle; others in fill¬ 
ing our water calks at the neighbouring ftagnant pool; 
and a third party in cutting wood. The greated plenty of 
this laft article being abread of the drips, and in a fituation 
the mod convenient for getting it on board, it was natural 
to make choice of this. But the trees here, which our 
people erroneoudy fuppofed to be manchineel, but were a 
fpecies of pepper, called faitanoo by the natives, yielded a 
juice of a milky colour, of fo corrodve a nature, that it 
raifed bliders on the fldn, and injured the eyes of our 
workmen. They were, therefore, obliged to dedft at this 
place, and remove to the cove, in which our guard was 
dationed, and where we embarked our water. Other wood, 
more fuitable to our purpofes, was there furnifhed to us 
by the natives. Thefe were not the only employments we 
were engaged in, for Medrs. King and Bayly began, this 
day, to obferve equal altitudes of the fun, in order to get 
the rate of the time-keepers. In the evening, before the 
natives retired from our pod, Taipa harangued them for 
fome time. We could only guefs at the fubjedt; and 
judged, that he was indrafting them how to behave to¬ 
ward us, and encouraging them to bring the produce of the 
illand to market. We experienced the good effects of his 
eloquence, in the plentiful fwpply of providons which, 
next day, we received. 
Nothing worth notice happened on the 4th and 5th, 
except that, on the former of thefe days, the Difcovery 
lod her fmall bower anchor, the cable being cut in two 
by the rocks. This misfortune made it necedary to exa¬ 
mine the cables of the Refutation, which were found to 
be unhurt. 
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