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A VOYAGE TO 
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Auguft. 
people, who had gathered round him, and went to take a 
view of the honfe, faid to be built by the ftrangers who 
had lately been here. I found it handing at a fmall dif- 
tance from the beach. The wooden materials, of which it 
was compofed, feemed to have been brought hither, ready 
prepared, to be fet up occalionally; for all the planks were 
numbered. It was divided into two fmall rooms; and in 
the inner one were, a bedhead, a table, a bench, fome old 
hats, and other trifles, of which the natives feemed to be 
very careful, as alfo of the houfe itfelf, which had fuffered 
no hurt from the weather, a hied having been built over 
it. There were fcuttles all around, which ferved as air 
holes; and, perhaps, they were alfo meant to fire from, 
with mufquets, if ever this fhould have been found necef- 
fary. At a little dihance from the front hood a wooden 
crofs, on the tranfverfe part of which was cut the following 
infcription: 
Chrijius vincit . 
And, on the perpendicular part (which confirmed our con¬ 
jecture, that the two fhips were Spanifh), 
Carolus III. imperat . 1774* 
On the other fide of the poh, I preferred the memory of the 
prior vifits of the Englifh, by infcribing, 
Georgius tertius Rex , 
Annis 1767, 
1769, 1773, 1774? G? 1777- 
The natives pointed out to us, near the foot of the crofs, 
the grave of the Commodore of the two fhips, who had 
died here, while they lay in the bay, the firft time. His 
name, as they pronounced it, was Oreede. Whatever the 
intentions of the Spaniards, in vifiting this ifland, might be, 
they feemed to have taken great pains to ingratiate them- 
felves 
