tude i° 18' S., longitude i 73°’4i6''E. the variation: o f ; the
compafs here, was one point E.
In our courfe from this place, , we faw, for feveral days,
abundance o f fifli, but we could take only lharksr which,
were become a good, difti eyen at. m y own-table.. Many, o f
the people now began to fall down with fluxes, which the
Surgeon imputed to the.exceffive beat, and almoft perpetual;.
rains,.
Sunday 2i. By the 21 ft, all our cocoa-nuts being expended, our people
began to fall down again.with the feurvy.. The elleift c>f
thefe nuts alone, in. checking this difeafe,-is~ aftoniftiing:
many whofe limbs were become as black. as ink, who could
not move without the afliftanceof two men, and-who, befides
total debility, fufFered excruciating pain, were in a'few
days* by eating thefe nuts, although at fea, fo far recovered
as to do their duty, and could even go aloft as well as they
did before the diftemper feized them. For feveral days,
about this time* we had only faint breezes, with fmooth
water, fo that we made b u t little way, and’ as we were now
not far from the Ladrone Iflands, where w e hoped fome re-
frelhments might be procured, we moft ardently wilhed for
asfrefh gale, efpeclally as the heat was ftill intolerable, the
glafs for a long time having never been lower than eighty-
one,. but often up to eighty-four; and I am of opinion that
this is the hotteft, the.longeft,,and. moft.dangerous run that
ever was made.
On the 18th, we were in latitude i'3°:9' N., longitude 158“
Monday22. ^Q' E.,.and on the 22d, in latitude 140 35'N., longitude 1.53°
1 1 E. during which time we had a northerly current. Being
now nearly in the latitude of Tinian; 1 fbaped.my courfe for
that ifland.
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Wednef. 3.
G H ' A P .
C H A P, XI.
The Arrival o f the Dolphin and Tamar at Tinian, a Defe
r iption of the prefent Condition of that I f and, and an
-Account of the TranfaSiions there.
ON the 28th, we faw a great number o f birds about 1765.
the fhip, which {continued till the 30th, when about . ^uly' _r
two o’clock in the afternoon we faw land, bearing W. 4-N. x ”eHaZ8ó
which proved to be the iflands Saypan, Tinian, and Aigui-
gan. At funfet, the extremes of them bore from N. W. 4 N.
weftward to S. W.; and the three iflands had the appearance
o f one. At feven, we hauled the wind, and’flood off and on
all nigh t; and at fix the next morning, thé extremes of the WedaeC
iflands, which ftill made in one, bore from N. W. by N. to
S. W. by S. diftant five leagues. The eaft fide o f thefe iflands
lies N. E. by N. and S. W. by S. Saypan is the horthermoft; I
and from the north eaft point of that ifland to the fouth •
weft point of; Aiguigan, the diftance is about feventéén
leagues.. Thefe three iflands are between two and three
leagues diftant from each other; Saypan is the largeft, and Ij
Aiguigan, which is high and round, the fmalleft. We fleered
along the eaft fide of them, and at noon hauled round the -
fouth point óf Tinian, between that ifland and Aiguigan, '
and anchoi'ed at the fouth weft end o f it, in fixteen fathom
water, with a bottom of hard fand and coral rock, oppofite
to a white fandy bay, about a mile and a quarter from the
fliore, and about three, quarters o f a inile from a reef o f -
rocks that lies at a good diftance.from the fhoré, in the .very;
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