were not come up, and the cocoa nuts, though they were in a growing ſtate when we planted them, had decayed in the earth.
When we firſt came too, off this bay, the wind was light to the Eaſtward; but, at day-light, it blew ſtrong from the North Weſt, and Weſt North Weſt, and continued ſo till Nov. 27.eight in the evening of the twenty-ſeventh, when it became calm. During the whole of this day, the crew were ſuffered to go on ſhore; and, on its proving calm, we ſhortened in the cable: but at midnight, by ſome unaccountable accident, the anchor tripped; however, the ſhip moſt fortunately did not drive on ſhore, if ſhe had, would inevitably have been loſt, as rocks extend for ſome diſtance off both points of the bay, and the light airs, which at intervals had blown, were moſtly along the land. Not a perſon on board had the leaſt ſuſpicion of what had happened till two o'clock in the morning.
It was a ſingular circumſtance, that having been reſtleſs during the whole of the night, I quitted my bed at this hour, and went upon deck, when I mentioned to the officer of the watch, my ſuſpicion of the ſhip's driving,