Auguft. 1767. made off with great precipitation. Both our boats then put off, but the water had fallen fo fuddenly Sunday 16 that they found it very difficult to get back to the fhip; for when they came into deep water they found the points of rocks ftanding up, and the whole reef, except in one part, was now dry, and a great fea broke over it. The Indians probably perceived their diftrefs, for they turned back, and followed them in their canoes all along the reef till they got to the breach, and then feeing them clear, and making way faft towards the fhip, they returned. Wallis's About fix in the evening, it being then dark, the boats returned, and the mafter told me, that all within the reef was rocky, but that in two or three places, at about two cables' length without it, there was anchorage in 18, 14, and 12 fathom, upon fand and coral. The breach in the reef he found to be about 60 fathom broad, and here, if preffed by neceffity, he faid a fhip might anchor or moor in 8 fathom; but that it would not be safe to moor with a greater length than half a cable. When I had hoifted the boats in, I ran down four miles to leeward, where we lay till the morning; and then, finding that the current had fet us out of fight of the island, I made fail. The officers did me the honour to call this ifland after my name. WALLIS'S ISLAND lies in latitude 13° 18' S., longitude 177o W. 2 As the latitudes and longitudes of all these iflands are accurately laid down, and plans of them delivered delivered in to the Admiralty, it will be eafy for 1767 Auguft. any ship, that fhall hereafter navigate these feas, to find any of them, either to refresh or to make far- Sunday 16. ther difcoveries of their produce. I thought it very remarkable, that although we found no kind of metal in any of these islands, yet the inhabitants of all of them, the moment they got a piece of iron in their poffeflion, began to fharpen it, but made no fuch attempt on brafs or copper. We continued to fteer N. wefterly, and many birds were from time to time seen about the fhip, till the 28th, when her longitude being, by Friday 28 observation, 187° 24′ W. we croffed the line into North latitude. Among the birds that came about the fhip, one which we caught exactly refembled a dove in fize, fhape, and colour. It had red legs, and was web-footed. We alfo faw feveral plantain leaves, and cocoa-nuts, pass by the fhip. On Saturday the 29th, about two o'clock in the afternoon, being in latitude 2° 50′ N., longitude 188° W. we croffed a great rippling, which stretched from the N. E. to the S. W. as far as the eye could reach from the mast head. We founded, but had no bottom with a line of two hundred fathoms. Saturday 20. Thuifd. 3. On Thursday the 3d of September, at five September. o'clock in the morning, we faw land bearing E. N. E. diftant about five miles: in about half an hour we saw more land in the N. W. and at fix, faw in the N. E. an Indian proa, such as is described 1767. fcribed in the account of Lord Anfon's voyage. September. Perceiving that fhe ftood towards us, we hoilted Thurid. 3. Spanish colours; but when he came within about Monday 7. Thurfd. 17. two miles of us, fhe tacked, and stood from us to the N. N. W. and in a fhort time was out of fight. At eight o'clock, the islands which I judged to be two of the Pifcadores, bore from S. W. by W. to W. and to windward, from N. by E. to N. E, and had the appearance of small flat keys. They were distant about three leagues; but many others, much farther off, were in fight. The latitude of one of thofe iflands is 11° N. longitude 192° 30' W.; and the other 11° 20' N., longitude 192° 58' W. On the 7th, we faw a curlieu and a pewit, and on the 9th we caught a land-bird, very much re→ fembling a ftarling. On the 17th, we faw two gannets, and judged the island of Tinian to bear Weft, at about one and thirty leagues diftance; our latitude being 15° N., and our longitude 212.30 W. At fix Friday 18. o'clock the next morning, we faw the ifland of Saypan, bearing W. by N. diftant about ten leagues. In the afternoon, we faw Tinian, and made fail for the road; where, at nine o'clock in Saturd. 19. the morning, of Saturday the 19th, we came to an anchor in two and twenty fathom, fandy ground, at about a mile diftant from the fhore, and half a mile from the reef. CHAP. Some Account of the prefent State of the land of Tinian, and our Employment there; with what happened in the Run from thence to Batavia. A September. S foon as the fhip was fecured, I fent the 1767. boats on shore to erect tents, and bring off fome refreshments and about noon they returned, Saturd. 19. with fome cocoa-nuts, limes, and oranges. In the evening, the tents being erected, I fent the furgeon and all the invalids on fhore, with two months provifions, of every kind, for forty men, the fmith's forge, and a cheft of carpenter's tools. I then landed myself, with the first lieutenant, both of us being in a very fickly condition, taking with us also a mate, and twelve men, to go up the country and hunt for cattle. When we first came to an anchor, the North Sunday 20. part of the bay bore N. 39° W. Cocoa Point N. 9 W. the landing-place N. E. by N. and the South end of the ifland S. 28 E.; but next morning, the mafter having founded all the bay, and being of opinion that there was a better fitution to the fouthward, we warped the fhip a little way up, and moored with a cable each way. : At fix in the evening, the hunters brought in a fine young bull, of neat four hundred weight: September. 1767. part of it we kept on fhore, and fent the rest on board with bread fruit, limes, and oranges. Monday 21. Early the next morning, the carpenters were fet at work to caulk the fhip all over, and put every thing in repair as far as poffible. All the fails were also got on fhore, and the fail-makers em ployed to mend them: the armourers at the fame time were bufy in repairing the iron-work, and making new chains for the rudder. The number of people now on fhore, fick and well, was fiftythree. In this place we got beef, pork, poultry, papaw apples, bread-fruit, limes, oranges, and every re freshment that is mentioned in the account of Lord Anson's voyage. The fick began to recover from the day they first went on fhore: the air, however, was fo different here from what we found it in King George's Inland, that flesh meat, which there kept sweet two days, could here be scarcely kept sweet one. There had been many cocoanut trees near the landing-place, but they had been all wastefully cut down for the fruit, and none being grown up in their ftead, we were forced to go three miles into the country before a fingle nut could be procured. The hunters also fuffered incredible fatigue, for they were frequently obliged to go ten or twelve miles through one continued thicket, and the cattle were fo wild that it was very difficult to come near them, fo that I was obliged to relieve one party by another; and it being reported that cattle were more plenty at the North end of the ifland, but that the hunters |