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point of the ifland bearing North, 30° Eaft; two miles 1779. 
diftant. , 
We fpent the night as nfual, Handing off and on. It Saturday 9. 
happened, that four men and ten women who had come 
on board the preceding day, ftill remained with us. As I 
did not like the company of the latter, I flood in fhore to¬ 
ward noon, principally with a view to get them out of the 
fhip ; and fome canoes coming off, I took, that opportunity 
of fending away our guefts. 
We had light airs from North Weft and South Weft, and 
calms, till eleven in the morning of the ioth, when the wind Sunday i 0 . 
freshened at Weft North Weft, which, with a ftrong current 
letting to the South Eaft, fo much retarded us, that, in the 
evening, between feven and eight o’clock, the South point 
of the ifland bore North* io|° Weft, four leagues diftant. 
The South fnowy hill now bore North, r|° Eaft. 
At four in the morning of the nth, the wind having Monday u. 
fixed at Weft, I flood in for the land, in order to get fome 
refrefhments. As we drew near the fhore, the natives be¬ 
gan to come off. We lay to, or flood on and off, trading 
with them all the day; but got a very fcanty fupply at laft. 
Many canoes vifited us, whofe people had not a Angle 
thing to barter; which convinced us, that this part of the 
ifland muft be very poor, and that we had already got all 
that they could fpare. We fpent the 12th, plying off and Tuefdayiz. 
on, with a frefli gale at Weft. A mile from the fhore, and 
to the North Eaft of the South point of the ifland, having- 
tried foundings, we found ground at Afty-Ave fathoms 
depth ; the bottom a Ane fand. At Ave in the evening, we 
flood to the South Weft, with the wind at Weft North Weft; 
and foon after midnight we had a calm. 
At eight o’clock next morning, having got a fmall breeze Wednef, 13. 
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