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the wind, as we had it, being very favourable for her to i 77 s. 
follow us, 1 concluded, that it would not be long before fhe t Decembe ^ 
joined us. I therefore kept cruizing off this South Eaft 
point of the ifland, which lies in the latitude of 19 0 34', 
and in the longitude of 205° 6', till I was fatisfied that Cap¬ 
tain Clerke could not join me here. I now conjectured, that 
he had not been able to weather the North Eaft part of the 
illand, and had gone to leeward in order to meet me that 
way. 
As I generally kept from five to ten leagues from the land, 
no canoes, except one, came off to us till the 28th; when Monday 28. 
we were vifited by a dozen or fourteen. The people who 
conducted them, brought, as ufual, the produce of the 
illand. I was very forry that they had taken the trouble to 
come fo far. For we could not trade with them, our old 
ftock not being, as yet, confumed; and we had found, by 
late experience, that the hogs could not be kept alive, nor 
the roots preferved from putrefaction, many days. How¬ 
ever, I intended not to leave this part of the ifland before I 
got a fupply; as it would not be eafy to return to it again, 
in cafe it fhould be found neceffary. 
We began to be in want on the 30th; and I would have wednei: 30. 
flood in near the flrore, but was prevented by a calm; but a 
breeze fpringing up, at midnight, from South and South 
Weft, we were enabled to ftand in for the land at day-break. 
At ten o’clock in the morning, we were met by the ifland- Thurfday 3Xt 
ers with fruit and roots; but, in all the canoes, were only 
three fmall pigs. Our not having bought thofe which had 
been lately brought off, may be fuppofed to be the reafon of 
this very fcanty fupply. We brought to for the purpofes of 
trade; but, foon after, our marketing was interrupted by a 
very hard rain; and, befides, we were rather too far from 
the 
