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our parallel, and we thereby rifqued the miffing of the Ladrones,
which we at prefent conceived ourfelves to be very near. But when
a gale fprung up, our condition was ftill worfe ; for it blew from
the S. W. and confequently was diredlly oppofed to the courfe we
wanted to fteer: And though it foon veered to the N. E, yet this
ferved only to tantalize us, as it-turned back again in a very ffiort
time to its old quarter. However, on the 22d of Auguft we had
the fatisfaftion to find that the current was Ihifted ; and had fet us
to the fouthward. And the 23d, at day-break, we were cheered
with the difcovery o f two lflands in the weftern board. This gave
us all great joy, and raifed our drooping Ipirits; for till then an uni-
verfal dejedtion had feized us, and we almoft delpaired of ever feeing
land again. The neareft of thefe lflands, as we learnt afterwards,
was Anatacan; this we judged to be full fifteen leagues
from us, it feemed to be high land, tho’ of an indifferent length:
The other was the Ifland of Serigan, which had rather the appearance
of a rock, than o f a place we could hope to anchor at. The
view o f thefe lflands is inferted at the top o f the annexed plan.
We were extremely impatient to get in with the neareft Ifland,
where we expedted to find anchoring ground, and an opportunity
o f refrelhing our fick. But the wind proved fo variable all day
and there was fo little o f it, that we advanced towards it but
fiowly; however, by the next morning we were got fo far to the
weftward, that we were in fight of a third Ifland, which was that
o f Paxaros, and which is marked in the chart only as a rock. This
was very fmall, and the land low, fo that we had paffed within lefs
than a mile of it in the night, without obferving it. At noon, being
then not four miles from the Ifland of Anatacan, the boat was
fent away to examine the anchoring-ground and the produce of
the place; and we were not a little felicitous for her return, as
we conceived our fate to depend upon the report we Ihould receive
: For the other two lflands were obvioufly enough incapable
of furniftiing us with any affiftance, and we knew not that there
were any befides which we could reach. In the evening the boat
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