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February. 
to weigh and join us. This was done about noon; and we 
immediately flood away to the Northward, in profecution 
of our voyage. Thus, after fpending more time about thefe 
iflands than was neceflary to have anfwered a11 our pur- 
pofes, we were obliged to leave them before we had com¬ 
pleted our water, and got from them fuch a quantity of re- 
frefhments as their inhabitants were both able and willing 
to have fupplied us with. But, as it was, our fhip pro¬ 
cured from them proviflons, fufficient for three weeks at 
leaft; and Captain Clerke, more fortunate than us, got, of 
their vegetable productions, a fupply that lafted his people 
upward of two months. The obfervations I was enabled to 
make, combined with thofe of Mr. Anderfon, who was a 
very ufeful afliftant on all fuch occafions, will furnifli ma¬ 
terials for the next chapter. 
CHAP, 
