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 cerned everal ilands that lay around it. When we had got within four or five miles of the North Eat end, I ent a boat away with the chief mate, to earch for an anchoring place; though, at times, I could not ee the jib-boom end, o thick and frequent were the howers. At noon, the boat returned, having been in a bay near the North end of the ile, which was mall, and open to the North Eat, with great depth of water, within three quarters of a mile of the hore. As this decription did not anwer to that of Mr. Wafer's bay, I tood in to examine it, as I could not have ventured to anchor in deep water, with a crippled windlas that occupied two hours, in a tart calm, to heave in nineteen fathoms of cable: beides, the tide, which I found afterwards etting on both points of the bay, was o trong, that if the boats had not been very ready, the hip mut have gone on hore; and, if in uch a ituation, there had been an anchor to heave up, it mut have been cut away. I therefore ordered the boats to examine more to the Wetward, and they accordingly dicovered Mr. Wafer's harbour. The land of