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 paing through trong ripplings and veins of currents, all of which run to the Wet till we made the iles.

On the twelfth, at break of day, we aw Chatham Ile, and by un-et came to an anchor in Stephen's bay, near the South Wet point of the ile in twenty-eight fathom water; the two points of the bay bearing North Eat and South Wet, and the Kicker rock, bearing Wet, North Wet, at the ditance of two miles. We attempted to get into this bay to the Wetward of the rock, but as there was little wind, with a current running right out, and no foundings to be got, with fifty fathom of line, till within three quarters of a mile of the hore, and then a rocky bottom, we hauled out to the North, and went in to the Eatward of the Kicker rock, there being regular foundings between it and the bluff, which formed the Eatern point of the bay: the greatet depth between them thirty fathoms, but the deepet water is near the rock.

We lay in this bay till the eventeenth of March, employed in earching for alt, procuring a tock of turtles, and recovering everal of the crew, who were afflicted with boils, they were oon retored by the fruit