book -breezes and very pleafaQt -weather &em the S.W»
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• .After noon we bore up for the. roads, keeping the
itarboard there on board. ^ e had, irregular foundings
from 15 to fathoms; and feeipg rocks , under
our bottom, we hauled, out and broughtstp, till aboa t
from the town follofpeople cameoff to They
naoft willingly undertook the charge of conducing the.
veflel; one o f them taking tkehekfr, and another
dire&ing her courfe from the mafi-head,. We palfed
' very clofe to the fouthyard p£ a roef, which bears
S. 20 ° W. from the Reef point one naile and a half,
having no bottom with 15 fathoms ; and then fleered
in E. S. E. for a building fiiuated upon foniC: elevated
Jalack rocks, which appeared like a tdock-houfe, when
the entrance of the opening of the harbour bore S. E.
by South. We hauled up for it, and came to an
anchor in 12 fathoms, muddy bottom, at half a mile
diftant, with the following bearings : -the harbour,
S. 35° E .; Starboard paint, S. 70° W*; Low Ifiand*
N. 57° W .; and reefe extending frbm N. 15° W. to
N. 40° W .; theiflands ofMatchi, N. 60° W. to 77° W.
fix or feven leagues; north extreme of the land’ o f
Xieuchieux, N. 18° E.
£ Our
Our Mends left us in the evening, with affuranoes
of being fupplied with water, wood, and refrethments,
in tl>e moaning* but ve^ueffeed u%ppt goi ioik Iht^e.
I t blew ftrong feom the S. W. throughout the morning,
with frequent . heavy fqualls; but we radS .vdry
well fhelteredi In the.jedubfe^the; day wereoeived
water by th ©«e-bcats ; and in the ;eveniag, th© weath€r
moderating, the matter“ was employed founding the
reads. Early in the morning our friends font us a
bullock, hogs* fowls, and potatoes, with abundance.
o f wood and water, and tlrongly urging our departure..
.
In the forenoon a junk arrived from Typinfan ; and
a Japanefe junk failed out of the. harbour, and proceeded
op her voyage, t®wards Nipbn,. patfing between
the reefs to the northward.
The wind ftili biew froth from the fouth, which oe-
cafipned lb*, great a ftarf on the thore that ho beat
could land except in ,the harbour,, which to us was
inadmiffible. This reftri&ion was extremely mortifying,
as I. was anxieu^i tW acquire feme knowledge of
the manners and cuftotns of thefe people » -and ail my
endeavours had hilherio' proved ineffectual: nor.
could my intreaties perfuade them to let fome of the
officers
jCKAP*.
III.
■julf,