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what Island it could be; for Pitcairn Island, being by all accounts, in the longitude of 133º.. 24'. W, we could not possibly imagine so great an error could have crept in our Charts with respect to it's Situation.
At daylight in the Morning we bore up, and ran for the Island, and as we approached it we were more surprized when we beheld plantations regularly laid out, and huts or houses more neatly built than those we had lately seen at the Marquisas Islands. - As Pitcairn Island is described as being uninhabited, we naturally conjectured this in view could not be the place, particularly when on bringing to, two or three Miles off the Shore, we observed the natives bringing down their Canoes on their Shoulders, and shortly after darting through a heavy Surf and paddling off to the Ship: But what