a stretch to the southward, but did not again fetch the bay till the evening of the 26th.  The two following days they had dark heavy weather with very hard squalls, and almost continual rain, the wind from north-east to south-east.  At day light in the morning of the 29th, the wind veered round to the south south-west, and soon afterwards, a very severe squall, attended with heavy rain, set the ship adrift, and the tide making strong to the north-west with a large hollow sea, they veered the reef very fast; however, the squall something abating, and fortunately backing round to the south south-east, they got their anchor up (which they otherwise would not have been able to have effected) and bore away to the north north-west.  At noon the body of Tinian bore east half south, about four leagues distant.

During their stay at Tinian, filling water took up the whole of their time, the well not affording more than three tons a day, sometimes only two tons:  the water was rather brackish, but otherwise not ill tasted.  They found the fowls and hogs very shy, and the cattle had quite deserted the south part of the island, owing, as was imagined, to the alarm the Charlotte’s people had occasioned among them.

They obtained two bulls, eight hogs, and about a dozen fowls; they also got bread fruit, but it was at some distance up the country, and the generality of it not ripe:  there was abundance of guavas but they were not in season; limes and sour oranges were also very plentiful.  Cocoa-nut trees were in abundance, but those within a moderate distance from the beach were cut down, so that the distance they had to go for any was attended with too much fatigue to compensate for the advantages which could be derived from them, as they experienced from two or three attempts of the kind:  the season in general seemed very backward.  In addition to the animals of this place, they found wild cats, The country had exactly the same appearance as when Captains Byron and Wallis visited it, but many of the pyramidical pillars had fallen down and were much decayed.  The mean state of the thermometer during their stay, was 87 deg..  In their passage from hence to China, no material circumstance occurred, and on the 19th of October they anchored in Macao Roads.

Chapter XXI.

May 1788 to September 1788

The Scarborough leaves Port Jackson—­Touches at Lord Howe’s Island—­Joins the Charlotte—­Falls in with a large Shoal—­Discover a number of Islands—­Short account of the Inhabitants—­Canoes described—­Ornaments—­ Discover Lord Mulgrave’s Islands—­Arrival at Tinian—­Sick people sent on shore—­Departure from Tinian—­Arrival in Mocao Roads.

6 May 1788-22 May 1788