A VOYAGE TO 
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December. 
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Wednef. 31. 
1778. 
January. 
Thurfday 1. 
of him; but neither the man nor the party having come 
back, the next morning, I ordered two boats into the lagoon 9 
to go different ways, in profecution of the fearch. Not long 
after, Captain Clerke’s party returned with their loft com¬ 
panion ; and my boats having now no object left, I called 
them back by fignal. This poor fellow muft have fuffered 
far greater diftrefs than the other ftraggler; not only as 
having been loft a longer time, but as we found that he 
was too fqueamifh to drink turtle’s blood. 
Having fame cocoa-nuts and yams on board, in a ftate of 
vegetation, I ordered them to be planted on the little ifland 
where we had obferved the eclipfe; and fome melon-feeds 
were fown in another place. I alfo left, on the little ifland, 
a bottle containing this infcription : 
Georgius Ter tins, Rex , 31 Decembris , 1777. 
Naves 5 Refolution, Jac. Cook , Pr. 
IDifcovery , Car . Clerke , Pr. 
On the ift of January 1778 ,1 fent boats to bring onboard 
all our parties from the land, and the turtles they had 
caught. Before this was completed, it was late in the after¬ 
noon ; fo that I did not think proper to fail till next morn¬ 
ing. We got at this ifland, to both fhips, about three hun¬ 
dred turtles, weighing, one with another, about ninety or a 
hundred pounds. They were all of the green kind; and 
perhaps as good as any in the world. We alfo caught, with 
hook and line, as much fifli as we could confume, during 
our ftay. They conftfted principally of cavallies, of dif¬ 
ferent flzes; large and fmall fnappers ; and a few of two 
forts of rock-fifh ; one with numerous fpots of blue, and 
the other with whitifh ftreaks fcattered about. 
The 
