1767. that we procured pork enough to ferve the fliip’s company
■ J°n- two days, at a pound a man.
Monday 22* •
When the boats returned, they brought us only a few
calibaflies of water, for the number of people on the beach
was fo great, that they would not venture to land, though*
the young women repeated the allurements which they had
pratflifed the day before, with Hill more wanton, * and, i f
poffible, lefs equivocal gellures. Eruit and provifions o f
various kinds were brought down and ranged upon the'
beach, o f which our people were alfo invited to partake, as *
an additional inducement for them to leave the boat. They
continued, however, inexorable, and. Ihewing the Indians^
the barecas on board, made figns that they llrould bring-;
down thofe which had been detained the day before: to this
the Indians were inexorable in their turn, and our people
therefore weighed their grapplings, and founded all round'
the place, to fee whether the Ihip could come in near enough,
to cover the waterers, in which cafe they might venture on;
fhore, in defiance o f the whole illand. When they put off,
the women pelted them with apples and bananas, fhouting,.
and Ihewing every mark of derifion and contempt that;
they could devife. They reported, that the Ihip might ride
in four fathom water, with fandy ground, at two cables’
length from the lhore, and in five fathom water at three
cables’ length. The wind here blew right along the lhore,,
railing a great furf on the fide of the. velTel, and on the
beach.
Tuefday 23. At day-break, the next morning, we weighed, with a
defign to anchor off the watering-place. As we were Handing
off, to get farther to windward; we difcovered a bay
about fix or eight miles to leeward, over the land, from the
5 mallmall
head, and immediately bore away for it, fending the
boats a-head to found. At nine o’clock, the boats making
thefignal for 12 fathom, we hauled round a reef, and Hood
in, with a defign to come to an anchor; but when we came
near the boats, one o f which was on each bow; the Ihip1
llruck. Her head continued immoveable, but her Hern was
free; and, upon calling the lead, we found the depth o f
water, upon the reef or Ihoal, to be from T7 fathom to two'
and a'half: we clewed all up as fall as poffible, and cleared
the Ihip o f what lumber there happened to be upon the'
deck, ar the fame time getting out the long-boat, with-the
fiream and kedge anchors, the, ftream cable and haufer, in*
order to carry them without the reef, that when they had’
taken ground, the Ihip might be drawn o ff towards them,
by applying a great force to the capltern, but unhappily
without the reef we had no bottom. Our condition was ■
now very alarming, the Ihip continued beating againll the
rock with great force, and we were furrounded by many
hundred canoes, full o f men: they did not,- however,
attempt to come on board us, but feemed to wait in expectation
of our fhipwreck. In the anxiety and terror o f
fuch a fituation we continued near an hour, without being
able to do any thing for our deliverance, except Having fome-
water calks in the fore-hold, when a breeze happily fpring-
ing up from the lhore, the Ihip’s head fwung off; We-
immediately preffed her with all the fail we could make;
upon which Ihe began to move, and was very foon once
more in deep water.
J->u7n6e7.-
Tuefday. 23*
We now Hood off, and the boats being fent to leeward,
found that the reef ran down to the weflward about a mile
and a half, and that beyond it there was a very good harbour.
The mailer, after having placed a boat at the end o f the
reef, and furnilhed the long-boat with anchor and haufers, ■
and: