Having got the tents and every other article on board on
the 28th, we only now waited for a wind to carry us out
of the harbour, and through New Paflage, thewaylpro-
pofed to go to fea. Every thing being removed from the
fliore, I fet fire to the top-wood, &c. in order to'dry a piece
of the ground we had occupied, which, next morning, I
dug up, and fowed with feveral forts of garden feeds. The
foil was fuch as did not promlfe fuccefs to the planter; it
was, however, the beft we could find. At two o’clock in
the afternoon, we weighed with a light breeze at S. W
and flood up the bay for the new paflage. Soon after we had
got through, between the Eaft end of Indian Ifland and the
Weft end of Long Ifland, it fell calm, which obliged us to
anchor in forty-three fathom water, under the North fide
of the latter ifland.
Friday 30. In the morning of the 30th we weighed again with a
light breeze at Weft, which, together with all our boats
a-head towing, was hardly* fufficient to Item the current.
For, after ftruggling till fix o’clock in the evening, and not
getting more than five miles from our laft anchoring-place,,
we anchored under the North fide of Long Ifland, not more
than one hundred yards from the fliore, to which we fattened
a hawfer.
-May. prjj day_1'ght next morning, May i f t , we got again un-
Saturday i . der fail, and attempted to work to windward, having a light
breeze down the bay. At firft, we- gained ground; but at
laft, the breeze died away; when we foon loft more than
we had got, and were obliged to bear up for a cove on the
North fide of Long Ifland, where we anchored in nineteen
fathom water, a muddy bottom : in this cove we found two
huts not long fince inhabited; and near them two very large
fire-
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Thurfday 29.
fire-places or ovens, fuch as they have in the Society Ides. 1773.
In this cove we were detained by calms, attended with con- ■ May'
tinual rain, till the 4th in the afternoon, when, with the Tuefday4.
afliftanceof a fmall breeze at S. W., we got the length of
the reach or paflage leading to fea. The breeze then left
us, and we anchored under the Eaft point, before a fandy
beach, in thirty fathoms water; but this anchoring place
hath nothing to recommend it like the one we came from,
which hath every thing in its favour.
In the night we had fome very heavy fqualls of wind, Wednef.;.
attended with rain, hail, and fnow, and fome thunder.
Day-light exhibited to our view all the hills and mountains
covered with fnow. At two o’clock in the afternoon, a light
breeze fprung up at S. S. W., which, with the help of our
boats, carried us down the paflage to our intended anchoring-
place, where, at eight o’clock, we anchored in fixteen fathoms
water and moored, with a hawfer to the fliore, under
the firft point on the ftarboard fide, as you come in from
fea; from which we were covered by the point.
In the morning of the 6th, I fent Lieutenant Pickerfgill, Thurfday 6;
accompanied by the two Mr. Forfters, to explore the fecond
arm which turns in to the Eaft, myfelf being confined on
board by a cold. At the fame time, I had every thing got
up from between decks, the decks well cleaned and well
aired with fires; a thing that ought never to be long negleifted
in wet moift weather. The fair weather, which had continued
all this day, was fucceeded in the night by a ftorm
from N. YV., which blew in hard fqualls, attended with rain,
and obliged us to ftrike top-gallant and lower yards, and to
carry out another hawfer to the fliore. The bad weatl ier con-
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