A VOYAGE TO 
light puffs of wind, which came with fhowers of rain, put 
us out of danger. While we lay, as it were, becalmed, fe- 
veral of the iflanders came off with hogs, fowls, fruit, and 
roots. Out of one canoe we got a goofe; which was about 
the fize of a Mufcovy duck. Its plumage was dark grey, 
and the bill and legs black. 
At four in the afternoon, after purchafing every thing 
that the natives had brought off, which was full as much 
as we had occafion for, we made fail, and ftretched to the 
North, with the wind at Eaft North Eaft. At midnight, we 
tacked, and flood to the South Eaft. Upon a fuppofition 
that the Difcovery would fee us tack, the ftgnal was omit¬ 
ted ; but flie did not fee us, as we afterward found, and 
continued ftanding to the North; for, at day-light next 
Thnrfday 24. morning, lhe was not in fight. At this time, the weather 
being hazy, we could not fee far; fo that it was poflible 
the Difcovery might be following us ; and, being paft the 
North Eaft part of the ifland, I was tempted to ftand on, 
till, by the wind veering to North Eaft, we could not wea¬ 
ther the land upon the other tack. Confequently we could 
not ftand to the North, to join, or look for, the Difcovery. 
At noon, we were, by obfervation, in the latitude of 19 0 55 ', 
and in the longitude of 205° 3'; the South Eaft point of the 
ifland bore South by Eaft a quarter Eaft, fix leagues dif- 
tant; the other extreme bore North, 6o° Weft; and we 
were two leagues from the neareft fhore. At fix in the 
evening, the Southernmoft extreme of the ifland bore South 
Weft, the neareft fhore feven or eight miles diftant; fo 
that we had now fucceeded in getting to the windward of 
the ifland, which we had aimed at with fo much perfe- 
verance. 
The Difcovery, however, was not yet to be feen. But 
the 
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1778. 
December. 
