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more than a mile and an h a lf diftarft, and, with our glaffles,
we faw many o f 'the inhabitants upon the beach ; bat there
being breakers at a coniidcrable diftance from the fhore, we
Rood oiF and on all night.
At four o’clock the next morning, we fent off the boats to
found, and vifit the iiland; and as foon as it was light, we
ran down and lay over^againil the middle o f it. At noon,
the boats returned, add reported that they had run within a
cable’s length o f the ifland, but could find no ground: that
feeing a reef of rocks lie off it, they had hauled round it,
and got into a large deep bay which was full o f rocks: that
they then founded without the bay, and found anchorage
from 14 to 30 fathom, with a bottom o f fand and coral: that
afterwards they went again into the bay, and found a rivulet
o f good water, but the lhore being rocky, went in fearch
■ of a better landing-place, which they found about half a
mile farther, and went afhore. They reported alfo, that
from the water to this landing-place, a good rolling-way
might be made for fupplying the fliip, but that a ftrong
guard would be neceffary, to prevent moleflation from the
inhabitants. They faw no hogs, but brought off two fowls
and fotne cocoa-nuts, plantains and bananas. While the
boats were on fhore, two canoes came up to them with fix
men: they feemed to be peaceably inclined, and were much
the fame kind o f people as the inhabitants of King George’s
Ifland, but they were clothed in a kind o f matting, and the
firft joint o f their little fingers had been taken off; at the
fame time about fifty more came down from the country, to
within about an hundred yards of them, but would advance
no farther. When our people had made what obfervations
they could, they put off, and three o f the natives from the
canoes came into one o f the boats, but when fhe got about
h a lf a mile from the fhore, they all fuddenly jumped over-
'Aogtfft.
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board and fwam back again.
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