A VOYAGE TO 
Sunday 11. 
Monday 12. 
Tuefday 13. 
Wednef. 14. 
mefs, which had been dreffed for him on fhore. It confided 
of fifh, foup, and yams. Initead of common water to make 
the foup, cocoa-nut liquor had been made ufe of, in which 
the fifh had been boiled or ftewed; probably in a wooden 
veffel, with hot hones; but it was carried on board in a. 
plantain leaf. I tailed of the mefs, and found it fo good, 
that I, afterward, had fome fifh dreffed in the fame way. 
Though my cook fucceeded tolerably well, he* could pro¬ 
duce nothing equal to the diili he imitated. 
Finding that we had quite exhaufted the ifland, of almoff 
every article of food that it afforded, I employed the nth 
in moving off, from the fhore, the horfes, obfervatories, and 
other things that we had landed, as alfo the party of ma¬ 
rines who had mounted guard at our fiation, intending to 
fail, as foon as the Difcovery ihould have recovered her belt 
bower anchor. Feenou, underffanding that I meant to pro¬ 
ceed dire£!ly to Tongataboo, importuned me firongly to 
alter this plan, to which he expreffed as much averfion, as 
if he had fome particular intereil to promote by diverting 
me from it. In preference to it, he warmly recommended 
an ifland, or rather a group of iflands,. called Hapaee, lying 
to the North Eaft. There, he allured us, we could be fup- 
plied plentifully with every refrefhment, in the eafieff 
manner; and, to add weight to his advice, he engaged to 
attend us thither in perfom He carried his point with me 
and Hapaee was made choice of for our next ftation. As it 
had never been vifited by any European fhips, the examina¬ 
tion of it became an objedl with me. 
The 12th, and the 13th, were fpent in attempting the re¬ 
covery of Captain Clerke’s anchor, which, after much 
trouble, was happily accomplifhed; and on the 14th, in the 
morning, we got under fail, and left Annamooka. 
This 
