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 caued it to well to that degree, that I had a doubt for ome time whether it would not cot me my life.

The vegetables and fruits we obtained on this iland were but few. There were ome cocoa trees in the bottom of the bay; and we found beans growing near the pot, where the Spanih pearl fihers or Indians had reided; and from whence, as we conjectured from the tate of their fire-places, they were but lately removed. The mitol and the chammer tree, mentioned by Mr. Falkner, were een in great plenty, but the fruit produced a nauea and icknes oon after it was wallowed. The officer, whom I ent to the Northward, informed me, that the huts remained which are mentioned in the voyage of Lord Anon, and conidered that bay as the mot convenient for any hip that might be obliged to remain at this iland to refit.

Quibo is the mot commodious place for cruizers, of any I had een in thee eas; as all parts of it furnih plenty of wood and water. The rivulet from whence we collected our tock, was about twelve feet in breadth, and we might have got timber for any purpoe for which it could have been wanted. There are trees of the cedar kind a ufficient ize to form mats for a hip of the firt rate, and of the quality which the