1767. where, at nine o’clock in the morning, of Saturday the 19th,
September.^ ^ came to an anchor in two and twenty fathom, fandy
Saturday 19. groun(jj at about a mile diftant from the fhore, and half a
mile from the reef.
C H A P. X.
Some Account o f the prefent State of the I f and of ’Tinian,
and our Employment there; with what happened in the
Run from thence to Batavia.
A S foon as the Ihip was fecured, I fent the boats on fhore
to eredt tents, and bring off Lome refrefhments; and
about noon they returned, with fome cocoa-nuts, limes, and
oranges.
In the evening, the tents being eredted, I fent the Surgeon,
and all the invalids on fhore, with two months pro-
vifions, o f every kind, for forty men, the fmith’s forge, and
a cheft of carpenter’s tools. I then landed myfelf, with the
Firft Lieutenant, both o f us being in a veryfickly condition,
taking with us alfo a mate, and twelve men, to go up the
country and hunt for cattle.
Sunday 20. When we firft came to an anchor, the North part o f the
bay bore N. 39° W. Cocoa Point N. 7° W. the landing-place
N. E. byN. and the South end o f the ifland S. s8° E .; but
next morning, the Mailer having founded all the bay, and
being o f opinion that there was a better fituation to the
fouthward, we warped the fhip a little way up, and moored
with a cable each way.
At
At fix in the evening, the hunters brought in a fine young '767-
bull, o f near four hundred weight: part of it we kept on
fhore, and fent the reft on board with bread-fruit, limes, s““da7 20’
and oranges.
Early the next morning, the carpenters were fet at work Monday 21.
to caulk the fhip all over, and put every thing in repair as
far as poflible. All the fails were alfo got on fhore, and the
fail-makers employed to mend them: the armourers at the
fame time were bufy in repairing the iron-work, and making
new chains for the rudder. The number of people now
on fhore, fick and well, was fifty-three.
In this place we got beef, pork, poultry, papaw apples,
bread-fruit, limes, oranges, and every refrefhment that is
mentioned in the account o f Lord Anfon’s voyage. The fick
began to recover from the day they firft went on fhore: the.
air, however, was fo different here from what we found it
in King George’s Ifland, that flefh meat, which there kept
fweet two days, could here be fcarcely kept fweet one. There
had been many cocoa-nut trees near the landing-place, but
they had been all waftefully cut down for the fruit, and none
being grown up in their ftead, we were forced to go three
miles into the country before a fingle nut could be procured.
The hunters alfo fuffered incredible fatigue, for they were
frequently obliged to go ten or twelve miles through one
continued thicket, and the cattle were fo wild that it was
very difficult to come near them, fo that I was obliged to relieve
one party by another; and it being reported that cattle
were more plenty at the North end o f the ifland, but that the
hunters being quite exhaufted with fatigue when they got
thither, were not able to kill them, much lefs to bring them,
down, I fent Mr. Gore, with fourteen men, to eftablifh
themfelves in that part o f the ifland, and ordered that a boat
fhould go every morning, at day-break, to bring in what
they