gation, and the hazard it would be to our ship,
if we attempted to make sail with the anchor in its present situation,
we had this most interesting consideration to animate us, that it was
the only anchor we had left; and, without securing it, we should be
under the utmost difficulties and hazards, whenever we made the
land again; and therefore, being all of us fully apprized of the
consequence of this enterprize, we laboured at it with the severest
application for full twelve hours, when we had indeed made a
considerable progress, having brought the anchor in sight; but, it
then growing dark, and we being excessively fatigued, we were obliged
to desist, and to leave our work unfinished till the next morning,
when, by the benefit of a night's rest, we completed it, and hung the
anchor at our bow.

It was the 27th of September in the morning, that is, five days after
our departure, when we thus secured our anchor; And the same day we
got up our main-yard: And having now conquered in some degree the
distress and disorder which we were necessarily involved in at
our first driving out to sea, and being enabled to make use of our
canvass, we set our courses, and for the first time stood to the
eastward, in hopes of regaining the island of Tinian, and joining
our commodore in a few days: For we were then, by our accounts, only
forty-seven leagues to the south-west of Tinian; so that on the first
day of October, having then run the distance necessary for making
the island according to our reckoning, we were in full expectation
of seeing it; but we were unhappily disappointed, and were thereby
convinced that a current had driven us to the westward. And as
we could not judge how much we might hereby have deviated, and
consequently how long we might still expect to be at sea, we had great
apprehensions that our stock of water might prove deficient; for we
were doubtful about the quantity we had on board, and found many
of our casks so decayed, as to be half leaked out. However, we were
delivered from our uncertainty the next day by having a sight of the
island of Guam, by which we discovered that the currents had driven us
forty-four leagues to the westward of our accounts. This sight of land
having satisfied us of our situation, we kept plying to the eastward,
though with excessive labour, for the wind continuing fixed in the
eastern board, we were obliged to tack often, and our crew were so
weak, that, without the assistance o