i78o. it jn part to a current, ■which, according to m y own calcuijanua^
}at;onSj ^ad fe t forty-two miles to the South South Weft,
between the noon o f the 19th, and the noon o f the 20th;
and is taken into the account in determining the fituation
o f the ifland.
A fte r paffing Sapata, w e fleered to the We ftw a rd ; and at
midnight founded, and had ground with fifty fathoms o f
line, over a fine fandy bottom. In the morning o f the
Friday 20. 30th, the wind becoming more moderate, we let out the
reefs, and fleered Weft b y South for Pulo Condore. At
noon the latitude was 8° 46' North, longitude 106° 4 5 'Eaft; and
at h a lf paft twelve we got fight o f the ifland, bearing Weft.
At four, the extremes o f Pulo Condore, and the iflands that
lie off it, bore South Eaft and South Weft b y Weft; our
diftance from the neareft iflands being two miles. We kept
to the North o f the iflands, and flood for the harbour on the
South Weft end o f Condore, which, h a vin g its entrance
from the North Weft, is the beft iheltered during the North
Eaft monfoon. At fix, we anchored, with the beft bower,
in fix fathoms, veered away two thirds o f the cable, and
kept the fhip fteady with a ftream anchor and cable to the
South Eaft. When moored, the extremes o f the entrance o f
the harbour bore North by Weft, and Weft North Weft one
quarter W e ft ; the opening a t the upper end South Eaft by
Eaft three quarters Eaft; our diftance from the neareft
fhore a quarter o f a mile.
As foon as w e were come to anchor, Captain Gore fired
a gun, with a view o f apprifing the natives o f our arrival,
and drawing them toward the ihore, but without efiedt.
Saturday 21. Early in the morning o f the 21ft, parties were fent to cut
wood, w hich was Captain Gore’s principal motive for
i coming
coming hither. In the afternoon, a fudden guft o f wind '780.
broke the ftream-cable, by which the Difcovery was riding, ■ Ja"“i"7' -
and obliged us to moor with the bower anchors.
None o f the natives having yet made their appear^
ance, notwithftanding a fecond gu n had been fired, Captain
Gore thought it advifeable to land, and go in fearch o f
them, that no time might be loft in opening a trade fo r fu ch
provifions as the place could afford 1 with this view, he ap-
pointed me to accompany him, in the morning o f the 22d ; Sunday ¿a;
and, as the wind at this time blew ftrong from the Eaft, we
did not think it prudent to coaft in our boats to the town,
w hich is fituated in the Eaft fide o f the ifland, but rowed
round the North point o f the harbour. We had proceeded
about two miles along the ihore, when obferving a road
that led into a wood, we landed. Here I quitted Captain
Gore, tak ing with me a Midfhipman, and four armed
failors, and purfued the path, which feemed to point di-
re ftly acrofs the ifland. We proceeded through a thick
wood, up a fteep hill, to the diftance o f a mile, when, after
defcending through a wood o f the fame extent, on the
other fide, we came out into a flat, open, fandy country,
interfperfed with cultivated fpots o f rice and tobacco, and
groves o f cabbage palm-trees, and cocoa-nut-trees. We
here fpied two huts, fituated on the edge o f the wood, to
w h ich we directed our courfe ; and before we came up to
them, were defcried by two men, who immediately ran
away from us, notwithftanding all the peaceable and fup-
plicating geftures we could devife.
On reaching the huts, I ordered the party to ftay without,
left the fight o f fo many armed men ihould terrify the inhabitants,
whilft I entered and reconnoitred alone. I found,
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