THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
In the afternoon, I lent Lieutenant Gore, with three 1778, 
armed boats, to look for the moft convenient landing- t J anuary g 
place ; and, when on biore, to fearch for frelh water. In 
the evening he returned, having landed at the village 
above mentioned, and acquainted me, that he had been 
conduced to a well half a mile up the country; but, by his 
account, the quantity of water it contained was too incon- 
fiderable for our purpofe, and the road leading to it exceed¬ 
ingly bad. 
On the 30th, I fent Mr. Gore afhore again, with a guard Friday 30, 
of marines, and a party to trade with the natives for re- 
frebiments. I intended to have followed foon after, and 
went from the blip with that delign. But the furf had in- 
creafed fo much, by this time, that I was fearful, if I got 
alhore, I fhould not be able to get off again. This really 
happened to our people who had landed with Mr. Gore, 
the communication between them and the blips, by our 
own boats, being foon bopped. In the evening, they made 
a hgnal for the boats, which were fent accordingly; and, not 
long after, they returned with a few yams and fome fait. 
A tolerable quantity of both had been procured in the courfe 
of the day; but the furf was fo great, that the greateb part 
of both thefe articles had been lob in conveying them to the 
boats. The officer and twenty men, deterred by the dan¬ 
ger of coming off, were left afhore all night; and, by this 
unfortunate circumbance, the very thing happened, which, 
as I have already mentioned, I wibied fo heartily to pre¬ 
vent, and vainly imagined I had effectually guarded againb. 
The violence of the furf, which our own boats could not 
a£t againb, did not hinder the natives from coming off to 
the blips in their canoes. They brought refrebiments with 
them, which were purchafed in exchange for nails, and 
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