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 least three miles. We then bor away to the northward, and anchored in five fathoms and it hal, at a mile from Sunday Island, which bore between N. o and 44 �m54netic.) The bay ! called Margaret Bay; its shores are low, and composed of a rmarkable white sand. We were detained at this anchorage from thick sl-.m and-squally Weather for two days. On the , (he gentlemen visit Sunday Island. The island is composed of a heap of rocks, covered with a thickly.matted underwood, and surrounded by a coral reef; it is about a mile and a half in cir- cumference, and rather higher than the islands in its vicinity. It had been visited by the natives some time since, but there were no traces of turtle, nor any thing to induce our gentlemen to .repeat their visit. Early oft the morning of the 24th, we left Mar- s4. , garet Bay; and, steering to the northward, passed dose round the western side of the'Bird Isles of Captain Cook. Eight or ten natives were stand- ing on the sandy Point of the north-easternmost islet, attentively ngaged in watching us as w passed by; and near them were two carices hauled up on the beach. The canoes' appeared to be of similar construction to that seen at Endearour River; but certainly were not more than sixteen or eighteen feet in length. The

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