ither sailing or double canoes came on board,
neither did we see any of either of these descriptions. They told us that
water and many other useful things, the usual produce of the islands in
these seas, could be procured on shore.

Their language appeared something to resemble that spoken at the Friendly
islands, and after asking them such questions as we thought necessary,
some of which probably were not understood perfectly by them, or their
answers by us, we made sail and continued our course to the Westward. No
women were seen in the canoes that visited us, which curiosity or the
hope of getting some pleasing toys usually bring to our side, but this is
another proof that their original intentions were hostile. We passed the
island in so short a time that those who neglected to come out at our
first appearance had not afterwards the opportunity to visit us.

On the 11th at eleven o'clock in the morning we struck soundings on a
bank in twelve to fourteen fathoms water and at ten minutes after eleven
had no ground in one hundred and forty fathoms. No land was then in
sight, nor did we get any soundings after in the course of the day. It
was called Pandora's Bank, its Latitude 12 deg. 11' S. and Longitude 188 deg. 68'
W.

On the next morning saw a small island which met in two high hummocks and
a steeple rock which lies high on the West side of the hummocks. It
obtained the name of Mitre Island. The shore appeared to be steep to, and
we had no bottom at 120 fathoms within three quarters of a mile of the
shore. There was no landing place or sign of inhabitants. The tops of the
hills were covered with wood. There was also some on the sides, but not
in so great an abundance they being too steep and too bare of soil in
some places to support it. Latitude 11 deg. 49' S. and Longitude 190 deg. 04'
30" W.[67-1]

By nine o'clock we had passed it and steered to the Westward, and soon
afterwards we saw another island bearing N.W. by N. We hauled up to the
N.W. to make it out more distinctly as it is of considerable height, yet
not much more than a mile long, and the top and the side of the hills
very well cultivated and a number of houses were seen near the beach in a
bay on the South side of the island. The beach from the East round to the
South of the West end is of white sand, but there was then too much surf
for the ship's boat to land upon it with safety. I called it Cherry's
Island [Native name: Anula]. Its Latitude is