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 may be ueful to whalers or cruizers, by offering a place where their ick may be landed, and cocoa nuts procured, whoe milk will upply the want of water. This iland, according to my obervations, lies in Latitude 7° 15′ North, and Longitude 82° 40′ Wet. The quicarasQuicaras [sic] conit of two iles: the larger one is about ix or even miles, and the leer about two or three miles, in length; they lay North and South of each other, with but a mall pace between them; and ditant from the South end of Quibo, about twelve miles. The leat of thee iles is entirely covered with cocoa trees; and the larger one bears an equal appearance of leafy verdure, but very few of the trees which produce it are of the cocoa kind.

The whole of my hip's company longed o much to get ome good water to their bad bread, and our ucces in fihing had fallen o hort of our expectations, that I was induced to quit the whaling ooner than I hould otherwie have done: therefore on the eighth day of February at Noon, we rounded the South end of Quibo, the Latitude by obervation being 7° 19′ 25″ North, oundings thirty-eight fathoms. The South point of Quibo bearing South 42° Wet, the North Eat point bearing North 45° Wet, and Cape Mariato bearing Eat 4° 30′ South. We had light airs and pleaant