Thurfday 24.
Friday 25.
Monday 28.
one hour, than we could get by diftillation in a month, I laid
afide the ftill, as a thing attended with more trouble than
-profit.
The heat, which had been great for about a month,
became now much more difagreeable in this clofe rainy
weather; and, from the moifture attending it, threatened
foon to be noxious ; as the ihips could not be kept dry, nor
the ikuttles open, for the fea. However, it is remarkable
enough, that though the only refrefliment we had received
fince leaving the Cape of Good Hope, was that at- New Zealand
; there was not, as yet, a fingle perfon, on board, fick,
from the conftant ufe of fait food, or viciifitude of climate. '
In the night between the 24th and 25th we palled Savage
Iiland, which I had difcovered in 1774*; and on the 28th,
at ten o’clock in the morning, we got fight of the iflands
which lie to the Eaftward of Annamooka, bearing North by
Weft, about four or five leagues diftant. I fleered to the
South of thefe-iflands, and then hauled up for Annamooka;
• which, at four in the afternoon, bore North Weft by North,
Fallafajeea South Weft by South, and Komango North by
Weft, diftant about five miles. The weather being fqually,
. with rain, I anchored, at the approach of night, in fifteen
¡fathoms deep .water, over a bottom o f coral-fand, and
ihells; Komango bearing North Weft, about two leagues
diftant.
* For an account oF thedifcovery Of -Savage Ifland ; a defcription of i t ; and the
behaviour of its. inhabitants, on Captain-Cook’s landing, fee his Voyage, Vol. n.
,; P- 3. top. 7.
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