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plan of further Operations—The Ships, on quitting
A^watfka Bay, fail along the Coafl— Achachtnfkoi
Bay-r^Cape Lopatka—The Ifland oJ Shoomfka —
T'he Ifle of Paramoufir—Obfervations relative to
. ihe Land of Jej(j, Staten Ifland, and the Com^
panfs Land—Many Birds obferved--^A vi^'lent
Storm -Poft ion of Zellany, Kunafhiry and the
Three Siflers—De G^ma^s Land -Ineffedual At¬
tempts to make the Land-—The Ships fail for
Jap n-^-Various Parts of the fapaneje Coafl de-
fcribed ""-Cape Nambu —Two Japanefe '^effels
obferved-- Defcription of one of them-—Boifierous
Weather-— ape de Kennis—-Beomtje^s^ Point—
Low Point—lVhite Point-—Sanddown Point—-
Projecution of our Voyage to China—Violent Cur-
rents—-^lantities of Pumice- Stone'-.Three Iflands
difcovered- Sulphur Ifland defcribed—^-Steer for
the Bafljee Ifles—Fruitlefs Search for them—-The
Ifland of Prata—The Prata )ho I---Some Chinefe

. Fjhin^-boats feen—The Lema Iflands-—Signal
for a Chineje Pilot—The Grand Ladron^ Ifland
^-'Journals and other Papers of the ■ fleers and
Men, relating to the Hijloj of the Voyage^ de
livered up*

AS the 'Lords  of the  Admiralty, in the in¬
ftrudions v/hich  they had given for the re-
gularion ofthe prefent voyage, had entrufted the

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