Eaft ? and having weathered Threehills, flood for the group
of fmall ifl.es which lie off the S, E. point of Apee. Thefe I
sailed Shepherd’s Ifles, in honour of my worthy friend Dr.
Shepherd, Plumian profeflor of aftronomy at Cambridge.
H a v in g a-fine breeze, I had thoughts of going through between
them, but the channels being narrow, and feeing
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broken water in the one we were fleering for, I gave up the
defign, and bore up, in order to go without, or to the South,
of them. Before this could be aceomplifhed, it fell calmr
and we were left to the mercy of the currents clofe to the
ifles, where we could find no foundings- with a line o f an
hundred and eighty fathoms. We had now land or lflands in-
every direction, and were not able to count the number which
lay round us. The mountain on Paoom was feen over the eaft
end of Apee, bearing N. N. W. at eight o’clock. A breeze at
S. E. relieved us from the anxiety the calm had occafioned:;
and we fpent the night making, fhort boards,.
The night before we came out of Port Sandwich, two red-
difh fifh, about the fize of large bream, and not unlike them,
were caught with hook and line. On thefe fifh molt, of the
officers, andfomeof the petty officers, dined the next day..
The night following, every one who had eaten of them was
feized with violent pains in the head and bones, attended
with a fcorching.heat all over the fkin, and numbnefs in the
joints. There remained no doubt that this was occafioned
by the fifh being of a poifonous nature, and having communicated
its bad effects to all who partook of them; even-
to the hogs and dogs. One of the former died about fixteen
hours after; it was not long, before one of the latter fhared
the fame fate; and it was.a week or ten days, before all the:
gentlemen recovered. Thefe mull have been the fame fort
° of.