53 ® 
177 s * 
November, 
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Friday 2j. 
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A VOYAGE TO 
except under certain restrictions. But the evil I meant to 
prevent, by this regulation, I foon found, had already got 
amongft them. 
At noon, the coaft extended from South 8i° Ealt, to 
North 56° Weft; a low flat, like an ifthmus, bore South 
42° Weft; the neareft Ihore three or four miles diftant; 
the latitude was 20° 59"; and the longitude 203° 50b See¬ 
ing fome canoes coming off to us, I brought to. As foon 
as they got along-fide, many of the people, who conducted 
them, came into the ftiip, without the leaft hefitation. We 
found them to be of the lame nation with the inhabitants 
of the illands more to leeward, which we had already vi- 
lited ; and, if we did not miftake them, they knew of our 
having been there. Indeed, it rather appeared too evident; 
for thefe people had got amongft them the venereal dif- 
temper ; and, as yet, I knew of no other way of its reach¬ 
ing them, but by an intercourfe with their neighbours 
flnee our leaving them. 
We got from our vifiters a quantity of cuttle-fifti, for 
nails and pieces of iron. They brought very little fruit 
and roots ; but told us that they had plenty of them on their 
Ifland, as alfo hogs and fowls. In the evening, the horizon 
being clear to the Weftward, we judged the Wefternmoft 
land in fight to be an ifland, feparated from that off which 
we now were. Having no doubt that the people would 
return to the fhips next day, with the produce of their 
country, I kept plying off all night, and in the morning 
flood c]ofe in Ihore. At firft, only a few of the natives vi- 
fited us ; but, toward noon, we had the company of a good 
many, who brought with them bread-fruit, potatoes, tarro, 
or eddy roots, a few plantains, and fmall pigs ; all of which 
they exchanged for nails and iron tools. Indeed, we had 
nothing 
