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 were not come up, and the cocoa nuts, though they were in a growing tate when we planted them, had decayed in the earth.

When we firt came too, off this bay, the wind was light to the Eatward; but, at day-light, it blew trong from the North Wet, and Wet North Wet, and continued o till eight in the evening of the twenty-eventh, when it became calm. During the whole of this day, the crew were uffered to go on hore; and, on its proving calm, we hortened in the cable: but at midnight, by ome unaccountable accident, the anchor tripped; however, the hip mot fortunately did not drive on hore, if he had, would inevitably have been lot, as rocks extend for ome ditance off both points of the bay, and the light airs, which at intervals had blown, were motly along the land. Not a peron on board had the leat upicion of what had happened till two o'clock in the morning.

It was a ingular circumtance, that having been retles during the whole of the night, I quitted my bed at this hour, and went upon deck, when I mentioned to the officer of the watch, my upicion of the hip's driving,