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fullest information and directions given to Lieutenant Portlock, who has hitherto given me every satisfaction.
In the course of the passage I had now to make I conceived myself bound to verify my former observations and as some discoveries of Maurelle, given to me by my Friend Mr. Dalrymple, appeared connected with mine, or at best doubtful as to their situation, I determined not to touch at the Friendly Islands unless the Plants required it, which was not the case. -- By this means I was doing a general good and determining with Certainty what might remain unknown for many Years. --
After laying a few hours off Whytootackee I learnt that the Pandora had been there, but it did not appear to me they had ever seen the Bounty after I left them. In addition to the remarks I have already given of this Island I have only to add that it is without anchoring ground. --
I found the Mayorga Isles seen by Maurelle to be a new discovery, and the Isles he lays down South of them called St. Christoval & Grand Montagne are