book meats* thefe venerable old men, accompanied us to
the beach, where /the long-beaty completely' r%ged/
jj** fitted1 with fails, &c. lay at anchor, ready for. h m M~
eeptance. They r e c to d t o f with great joy, * and
. diretaiy took pofifefikm. Thus did we part moft
amicably withpJbfefe; 'humane Civilized people, not
nnaffedted by the favours .we had receivedftom them
in our diftreffod fituation.
To the N: W .o f Typinfenisp. t o f t il^idj calted
Corumah, between which and Eraboo {thoj ifland
where we firft anchored) is a paffage to the fea ;- but
the xnalter reprefentihg it rather intricate, wfe preferred
the old channel We had come in by# having
two boats a-head to warn us of danger. iiWitk.-.&etfe
precautions wie got under way inI the morningand
at noon-the rocks of Eraboo fouth point bore^Nprth,
two or three miles; the ifland jjj of Afhumah, fituated
to the Weft of the fouthempart of;Wyphtfant$ f;gQ°rE->
t o e or four miles; the weft
70" W. An indifferent obfervatipB madhvpur iatitflpc
24° 42' 30" N .: the wind from tpe J l/E , quarter, .with,
fair weather. Our foundings. vm’ied ;feoih ,3; |0-12
fathoms ; and the clearnefs of the water pointed put
the ftioalieft fpots. When we brought the weft
point of Eraboo and the ifland of Alhuma in ope
j . \ * ' bearing,
bearing, 3ST. W. and' S*.E., we had palled t i e flioal CHAt*.
'Water. Tftd boat#jU eré called on board, and wè *—
made fail to thé Nv W.j ranging Eraboo at the diftance m Ïj '
of three miles. "
After mufidihi the weft p ^ p t of Eraboo/we hauled
up N. N .E .; and dt 4 P.M. we had fight1 of the
Wreck, and paffed feveral planks and a calk of hops,
which the boats picked up. ‘ Before the fhip was feen
we plainly bbfefved the* reéf, the fea breaking upon
it very high-, yèt there was no more wind, only in a
different quarter, when the fhip ftrdcM; and inconceivable
is itttiay and doés appear, the breakers Wcré
hardly feen/beföre'the fhip was on fhore. Such was
our unhappy deftiny, to be call dWay, even when we
had not or could not apprehend the lééft danger from
appearances, Or from any forefight of mine, and depending
upon a good look-out to be kept after dark,
agreeable to my Written orders, and conftant direétions
both day and night.
We fleered N. E. from 4 to 6 P. M., When thë Outer
breakers, within them were rocks aWyé water, bore
S. 15° E. on with Hummock Ifland,' two of three
miles diflant; and we had no foundings with 100
fathoms.' In this fituation we faw no land to the eaft-
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