f every man on board, it was not
in our power to put the ship about: This severe employment lasted
till the 11th of October, being the nineteenth day from our departure;
when, arriving in the offing of Tinian, we were reinforced from the
shore, as hath been already mentioned; and on the evening of the same
day, to our inexpressible joy, came to an anchor in the road, thereby
procuring to our shipmates on shore, as well as to ourselves, a
cessation from the fatigues and apprehensions which this disastrous
incident had given rise to.

SECTION XXVIII.

_Of our Employment at Tinian, till the final Departure of the
Centurion, and of the Voyage to Macao._[1]

The commodore resolved to stay no longer at the island than was
absolutely necessary to complete our stock of water, a work which we
immediately set ourselves about. But the loss of our long-boat, which
was staved against our poop when we were driven out to sea, put us
to great inconveniences in getting our water on board: For we were
obliged to raft off all our cask, and the tide ran so strong, that,
besides the frequent delays and difficulties it occasioned, we more
than once lost the whole raft. Nor was this our only misfortune; for,
on the third day after our arrival, a sudden gust of wind brought home
our anchor, forced us off the bank, and drove the ship out to sea a
second time. The commodore, it is true, and the principal officers,
were now on board; but we had near seventy men on shore, who had been
employed in filling our water, and procuring provisions: These had
with them our two cutters; but as they were too many for the cutters
to bring off at once, we sent the eighteen-oared barge to assist them;
and at the same time made a signal for all that could to embark. The
two cutters soon came off to us full of men; but forty of the company,
who were employed in killing cattle in the wood, and in bringing
them down to the landing-place, were left behind; and though the
eighteen-oared barge was left for their conveyance, yet, as the ship
soon drove to a considerable distance, it was not in their power to
join us. However, as the weather was favourable, and our crew was now
stronger than when we were first driven out, we, in about five days
time, returned again to an anchor at Tinian, and relieved those we
had left behind us from their second fears of being deserted by their
ship.

[Footnote 1: The original contains also a description of the Ladrones
(or M