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 After anchoring and his preent wants being accommodated, he varied o in his future plans, to his former ones propoed, that I could not comprehend he had any fixed one at all; and his conduct in general not correponding to my ideas or expectations, I had only to lament, that after putting myelf to o great an inconvenience, there was o little probability that it would be attended with any advantage to his employers. Finding my advice of no farther ue I ailed without him.

As oon as a boat was repaired, I et out to urvey the South Eat part of this and Albemarle Ile. On reaching the South point of James's Ile, I got ight of three other iles which I had not een before, nor can I trace them in the Buccaneers accounts, no more than the ile which we aw to Wetward, when at anchor in Stephens's bay, Chatham Ile. Thee three iles now een, I named after the admirals Barrington, Duncan, and Jarvis. The two Northernmot, which are nearet to James's Ile, are the highet, and preented the mot agreeable appearance, being covered with trees. The Southernmot, which I named Barrington Ile, is the larget and was the greatet ditance from me, it is of a moderate height, and ries in hummocks; the South end is low, running on